Weird things are happening on the server, and I need to get back with their folks to see if we can get things running correctly.

You can get to the beta 7 .iso via this URI:

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OK. Some o-y'all have already seen this:

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Up until now MEPIS has had some trouble with WPA and WPA2 support for Intel ipw* chips. After working with Warren this past weekend, Warren has figured out the trouble we were having with WPA support.

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I have used Firefox and Thunderbird for many years now. I like both of them a lot. However, I have decided to learn a bit more about two of the big components of the KDE Desktop Environment: Konqueror and KMail. I have decided to spend at least a month using both of them.

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In skimming through the BBC, tonight, I discovered proof that we Americans don't have the corner on the market of stupid citizens:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wear/6132140.stm

OK.

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I like Ken Starks. I have yet to meet the guy and, given the way things seem to work out in life, I may never have that pleasure.

http://blog.lobby4linux.com/index.php?/archives/85-One-Small-Business-Gladly-Gives-Microsoft-the-Boot.html

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Somewhere, buried in all the posts around here, is a reference to some modified Debian packages that I am hosting on my personal site.

All well and good, except that, last night, I was doing some site maintenance and discovered that I had previously overwritten several dynamic pointers--one of them being the reference to the page listing those packages.

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One thing I like about Linux is the ability to connect the old with the new.

As I indicated in my Bio, many of my early interests were of all things nautical and medical. When I was a young boy I taught myself how to tie many complex knots using the best "knot books" of the time (Ashley's Book of Knots and The Encyclopaedia of Knots and Fancy Ropework by Raoul Graumont and John Hensel). I also kept my mind busy by learning all I could about medicine and anatomy. Not bad for a kid in the sixth grade!

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I just wanted to let everyone know that one of the reasons that things have been a bit quiet from me for the past few weeks is that I got a new job! I started the new job on September 18 and have been very busy getting my house ready to sell so that I can move closer to my new job. Things are starting to settle a little bit and I should have some more time to focus on MEPIS again. When I actually move I may be out of the loop for a another week or two. So please bear with me as I make this transition and get settled.

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Before I quit my job and went to live in Spain, I was a staff member at the IT department of a big university. We didn't do anything with Linux, and partially, I was to blame. So now you can all hate me.... I'll explain though. It was my responsibility to devise a technical concept for the university's IT needs. Those of you who know a bit of how universities work will know it requires a good deal of politics to maneuver your way around, and at the time, our main issue was knowledge, support and standardization. And we were a Microsoft shop. The fastest way for the IT department to get a firm base was to come up with a standard set of integrated solutions and MS helped us to achieve that goal (together with Novell Active Directory, but that was another political choice I won't get into...).

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