Duct Tape and Circuits

When you suffering depression or are on the downside of being bipolar, even simple things like taking a walk can be extremely difficult and painful experience. I had to go down town today, and it took me at least 3 hours to convince myself and motivate myself to walk there. With the way gas prices are, walking seemed the way to go. Read the rest of this entry »

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I happened apun my old iMac the other day, it’s one of those all in one deals. Think they called it a jellybean or something similar to that. Anyway I am running out of file space on my main system, and thought that just maybe it would make a nice little file server for a little extra storage and a few other things. After booting it up, first time I bet in over a year, I discovered I had already installed a linux system on it, but wanted to convert it to openSuse 11. Figuring it would make it a tad easier. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: howto, install, powerpc, Server
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There are many many posts saying why linux is failing. If I had a dollar for every post and article I’ve read or seen the title too I could probably buy a nce car or something like that. I will probably end up repeating what some one else has said, I just haven’t seen it yet. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Apple, Darwin, Linux, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, News and Media, Open source, Operating system
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Yes I know, I change the theme more then a woman changes her shoes, sorry ladies no offense ment. But I needed a change, and at least it is not a dark theme, and I need a little brightness in my world as of late.

Tags: theme
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Today has not been a good day by any stretch of the imagination. Besides my depression, and an altercation with my son before I even had my first cup of coffee , my mouse and keyboard decide they have had enough and decided to go by the way side.

So off I got to the local Wally World (walmat for the rest of you folks) to get replacements. Which I was able to do with out to much problems, though it was money that I really didn’t have to spend. Luckly I had enough pop cans to turn in to cover it.

But I am used to a split keyboard and Wally world does not sell them, so I am stuck with a straight. Ugh, it is extremely hard for me to type. But least it works. Now if I could get the extra keys on both the keyboard and mouse working I’d be a happy camper. Unfortunately I can’t find anything in the suse distro to help me do that. Ah well , something else to put on the ever expanding ‘to do list’

Tags: keyboard, mouse, openSuse
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I have been searching and searching for a couple of things lately. Mainly a excellent rss reader and blogging editors for KDE. And even better yet, a combined RSS/Blogging application. But there none to be found, least not that I have located any, or at least that behaves like I feel one should.

Sure there is ScribeFire for Firefox, and it does okay in the browser. And that’s fine if I stumble across a page that I want to write a short comment on or something like that. But beyound that, least for me anyways, it lacks things. Don’t ask me what, my brain is racing bad enough as it is, I am lucky to be able to get this far lol. Don’t get me wrong, I recommend ScribeFire to people that ask me for something like that, it’s good, but….

And yes, I will probably try to come up with something myself, god knows I have the time. Bah..

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I stumbed on this page today, An Introduction to Bipolar Disorder - Psych Central. It’s down right scary to read something that describes one’s feeling, emotions, what ever. Makes you want to stop the world and get off for a few, just so you can catch your breath for a time.

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While it does not make feel any better about things or help my current situation at all, it at least gives me some ammo for those that look at me and think I am completely wacked. Well okay, I am but that is completely besides the point, I mean really. I didn’t ask of any of this, don’t want it, I’ll share, shoot I’m a giving person I’ll let you take lock stock and barrel.

Tags: bipolar, depression
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With everything going wrong or being so wrong in my life, I am not feeling to bad about it today. Kind of holding my own, in a slightly up beat mood. Which of course, knowing from past experience, as the day turns to night, and things wind down, I’ll start to feel guilty about feeling okay. Makes a lot of sense doen’t it ? NOT least not to me anyways.

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Tags: Anxiety, Mental Health, Panic attack
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I recently found a new font that I wanted to use for here and there on the web. So I located the font download intended for linux and downloaded it to my box. The next problem, since I have never done this before, was how exactly to install the fonts and or where to put them so they could be found. So I turned to the openSuse forums and did a quick search, found a mention if you were using Gnome, to open the file browser and type “font:///”, wondering if KDE was by chance the same way I gave it a short.

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Tags: Compiz Fusion, Desktop environment, Fonts, KDE 4, Konqueror
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clock.

Odd, disturbing, interesting? hmmmmmmmmmmm

Tags: funny, odd
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