(Personal, Vanity) Looking for A Good Penguin

self ^ | 5-23-2009 | grey_whiskers

[grey_whiskers]

Random literary thought of the day, just to cross your wires.

Boccacio is Chaucer on steroids.

Rabelais is Boccacio on Everclear and Peyote.

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

Like, *PING*, dudes.

If you would be so kind...?

I have noted you tend to be more knowledgable and more helpful than some others...

Also, I will not be able to respond for some hours: have to get the air conditioning leak in the car repaired.

But I will be reading and trying to learn when I get back.

Thanks very much for your kindness.

Cheers!

[WarriorPoet]

I use Ubuntu 9.4. It worked right out of the box (actually downloaded an iso off the net and installed it from cd), self-detected my hardware and automatically installed all the drivers. No issues, no problems, no hassle. I’ve had it up and running 24/7 for the past several weeks and no hiccups at all.

[frankenMonkey]

If you want to backup the Mac, Time Machine is built into the OS. I use it with an external disk. Go to Help in the Finder upper menu bar, type in Time Machine for details.

[Tax-chick]

This is Fluffy, Destroyer of Trolls. Please give him a fishy.

[grey_whiskers]

Off to the car-repair place now.

Cheers!

[paulycy]

Boccacio is Chaucer on steroids.

Rabelais is Boccacio on Everclear and Peyote.

Brahms has the competency of Beethoven without the spark of genius.

Wynton Marsalis is no Miles Davis. He's not even Fats Navarro.

[joseph20]

As far as linux goes, I recommend Fedora

[cowboyway]

What is a good website or source

Carbonite

some writing. Needn't be "Word" compatible but should have ordinary word processing capabilities

Neo Office. It's free.

[knarf]

"Boccacio is Chaucer on steroids. Rabelais is Boccacio on Everclear and Peyote."

Do you sleep?

[Lucretia Borgia]

3. Ubuntu. It's free, works well, and is so easy to install even my kid was able to do it.

[Tax-chick]

Good luck!

[Lucretia Borgia]

> Needn't be "Word" compatible but should have ordinary word processing capabilities...

I use OpenOffice for everything. If there are any incompatibilities with Microsoft Office, I haven't found them yet, and I use it six hours a day for writing and spreadsheet work. It's free, too.

And come to think of it, bundled right into Ubuntu.

[dfwgator]

[preciousbabies]

hee hee

[Tax-chick]

Isn’t he the cutest thing?

[socialismisinsidious]

Crosby or Malkin....take your pick.

Actually they are both GREAT penguins. GO PENS!

[savedbygrace]

Rather than Time Machine, I use SuperDuper.

http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

The free version disallows incremental backups, so I recommend paying the $27.95 and gaining that feature and others.

Well worth $27.95 without any of the problems that have been reported WRT Time Machine.

[fremont_steve]

Kubuntu - a Ubuntu relative with KDE which is a bit more easy to use (this is personal opinion). www.kubuntu.org

OpenSuse - www.opensuse.org - I use this one personally all day long. I use it for work!

Mandriva - a long time favorite of mine BEFORE I switched over to OpenSuse. Perhaps more colorful than OpenSuse.

You won’t go wrong with any of the above. (This from a 17 year user of Linux ;-)

[savedbygrace]

Forgot to add: SuperDuper will make the clone of your boot volume bootable, of course.

So, if the drive with your boot volume ever goes paws up, you’re back in business in less than a minute.