New camera

I got a new camera for christmas and finaly got around to attaching it to my linux box. It is a samsung S860. It takes decent pictures and had no problems when I hooked it to the computer.

Offline Journal

I use a script that I got from http://www.marcelgagne.com/daily_journal.html. It works very well as long as you remember that *nix is case sensitive. I had to redo the script after reinstalling my computer and had some trouble getting the script to work. It ended up that I had spelled Journal with a capital J in the script and the directory where the files were supposed to be located was journal with a lower case j.

Drivel

I finaly figured out how to configure Drivel to work with wordpress. I fought with it for a while the last time I installed Ubuntu on my desktop with no success. I could not find any information about it either. With my current install I decided to try again and did another google search. I found the information I was looking for almost instantly. You set the server type to movable type and add /xmlrpc.php to the end of the server address. I am glad to get that figured out as the web interface can be slow.

Reinstall

I  just reinstalled my desktop.  I installed Ubuntu 8.10.  I had to install it twice because I forgot to add the mount point for my home directory during the partioning step.  This blog helped me remember the names of some of the software that I had installed and needed to reinstall after I reinstalled the operating system.

New Toy

Last thursday I was at the goodwill and found an imac.  It is running os 9.2.2.  It has a 500 megahurts ppc processor, 256 megs of ram and a 30 gig harddrive.  I have been looking for a decent webbrowser for it but have not had any luck.  I am either going to have to come up with the money to buy a copy of OS X or install some version of Linux.    I would rather have the copy of OS X because I need to learn more about that Operating system.  I want to be a computer tech and that will include working with lots of different systems.