Blake Miller's Blog

Well I’m into the Linux thing. A few weeks ago, for some odd reason, Windows “Stopped” working on my laptop. So I got out my Kubuntu Linux CD and started the install. Every thing ran well on the live CD but after I had it installed my Wireless Network card stopped working. After spending three hours going through the Ubuntu Forum I finally figured out that the wireless card didn’t have the power on. So I pushed Fn + F3 and away it went. After wards, I was reading some more on the Centrino Duo processors and found out that your can install a 686 kernel Instead  of the regular i386. This allowed Kubuntu to use my second processor. Every thing else worked right out of the box. No fancy tweaks.

A week later and this is what it looks like.

Unfortunately I had to install a few Windows program under Wine. Then I had to install VMware so I could install XP under Linux. The only reason I have it is because of school work. Dam school and there Windows…

So there it is… Linux… IT ROCKS!

Last night, North Bay got a large amount of snow in a 8 hour period. We went from having no snow to having about 2 feat of snow. Needless to say ever one was unprepared. 12 hours after the storm, I finally got my parents snow blower to start. Boy was there a lot of snow.

Tonight I had the digital camera out here are a few pictures of what it looks like in my hood.

My parents also purchased a new 50″ Panasonic Viera TV. The thing is huge and was a evening project to get up on the wall. All the wires aren’t run through the wall yet. Me and my dad are going to be doing that after Christmas due to the fact were going to have to tare part of a wall down to do it. O well, it’s still nice to watch TV on. More pictures.

For presents this year I have already got my dad, mom and sister something but now I got to find something for Jess. It’s going to be a difficult challenge.