November 17, 2003 Archives

Here's the status as I get ready for bed. Mandrake Linux is up and running. The laptop has no sound. There is neither Java or Flash with the browser. The wireless LAN is perfect, though I have no idea where I administer it from. I haven't tried a wired NIC card yet. Printing over the network to my laser printer works.

I have lost both my taskbar and icons. The icons were part of a bug that I may have fixed. I followed info on Mandrake's knowledge base. I have no idea why the taskbar disappeared, but not having it makes it difficult to do anything... including reboot. Once I did that, the taskbar was back.

I have installed OpenOffice, Gaim and Mozilla - none of which seemed to come with the distribution natively.

I hope this isn't too boring.

Back in the late 70's, my friend Marlene's father had Eagles season tickets... of which I bought two. After I left Philadelphia, I stopped going to games, but never stopped rooting for the team.

Tonight, I spoke to my friend Barry, who has season tickets, and was invited to join him for the Eagles vs. Dallas. This year, this might be the most important game of the season.

Helaine says I will freeze - in the snow. She's probably right. Still, how can I say no?