For some reason my Fedora machine has crashed. It no longer boots up to X windows. This happened right after the update yesterday morning.

My turbo linux machine seems ok but it also had X die today. I will boot it up again right now and check it to rule out general X windows problems everywhere.

The Duron seems to be booting just fine. Yes X windows still works there but there is an error message at log in and this second Linux machine does connect to the net yet.

I tried to get a better X config but this failed. So I lost a low power X configuration and will now be adjusting it. There is some bomb file called Core in the root directory. I am not sure what this is.

I am preparing to write some more of my protest dtd tonight. Not sure I will actually write anymore of it. I will do it on the Fedora machine, LEAVES. I got the text editing program to print out my dtd in hard copy with XML highlighting in colour.

I am updating Fedora right now

I might study some SAS tonight on my Thinkpad. I might try to do some web mastering too on the Thinkpad.

I chatted using the undernet server on channel #linux earlier tonight.

It should be a long night studying code and maybe staying up for a speech tomorrow on global governance at school.

I quit my www.zip.ca membership before the trial period ended. Internet shopping? Somewhat pricey.

I am more comfortable now with on-line shopping. I am using www.zip.ca to rent dvd's for instance.

I studied a little basic C++ programming this morning.

Yesterday I printed this blog out in rough copy and added it to my ecommerce legal issues notebook as a hard copy of my computer work.

I hope to do a little web mastering today on the ERN web site. I have to perfect some downloads of PDF's for a conference.

I updated this blog's byline or subheadline.

I bought an HP CD writer plus 8200e for a friend. We got it working fine using HP's RecordNow software. I also used this software for my old HP CD writer plus 8000 which I put in a USB external enclosure and got working with my laptop. My old 20GB backup IDE hard drive would not work in this enclosure but the CD writer works so hey.

I printed out all my blogs for rough copy binders. This is public information. It is non-protected class A data.

I also backed up my laptop as I do at the end of each month.

I studied Palm labels and fields, this morning, but did not examine the code carefully in chapter 7 of Bachmann, Glenn, Palm Programmming: The Authoriative Solution (Indianapolis, IN: Sams, 1999). But am only up to chapter 4 actually with reading, reviewing and working with the code in Code Warrior's Palm Constructor. I am doing this learning on my WinXP laptop.

I did some webmastering today. I used some server side folders and full URL's rather than relative. I hope to complete this work in another hour or two this morning.

Then I will work on the IBM Thinkpad 360SC. I am hoping with the Thinkpad that the new Linksys PCMCIA fast ethernet card will re-establish my network connection. Of course I will need to install the right driver to support the card.

These are the computer related books I am reading at the moment.

Bachmann, Glenn, Palm Programmming: The Authoriative Solution (Indianapolis, IN: Sams, 1999)

This book explains the tools and code needed to make applications for the Palm handheld computer.

Stevens, Al, Wiley's Teach Yourself C++ 7d (New York: Wiley, 2003)

This book starts with the basics of programming in C++ similar to C and then goes further.

Schroeder, Michael & Wagner, Gerd, eds., Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web: Second International Workshop, RuleML 2003 Sanibel Island, FL, USA, October 2003 Proceedings (Berlin: Springer, 2003)

This book includes papers about web searching technologies for example.

Delwiche, Lora D. & Slaughter, Susan J., The Little SAS Book: a primer (Cary, NC: SAS Institute, 1998)

This book teaches how to do basic SAS and describes the structure of programs, data formats, and use of Data and Proc steps.

Denning, Dorothy E., Information Warfare and Security (Reading, Mass.: Adison-Wesley, 1999).

I used the Real One radio today and also iTunes radio both on the WinXP laptop. I also upgraded the iTunes software.

Speaking of Apple software. I upgraded to Panther about a month ago for my eMac. And still speaking of Apple, I made an order and saved it for later for an iPod 20GB and an iSight and a USB sound input device for a home studio. Total for this saved order is 1K. The iPod is for my wife. Honestly.

I am not doing much computing today just web and email and no programming. I am working in none computer related work today.

There is a technology tradeshow and conference next week at our cities civic centre. I may have some free time to attend after I write my exam on Monday.

I got a Linksys Fast Ethernet PCMCIA card throguh ebay.ca. The card seems in perfect shape and it should work fine with the older Thinkpad. It came with a bonus Turbo Linux workstation 6.0 CD. I was looking for this OS as Turbo Linux no longer seem to offer it as a free download.

I am studying for my exam this morning after

briefly studying
• Palm programming,
• Unjust Enrichment,
• Numerical Analysis,
• a little para-psychology and philosophy,
• a little about web searching technology based on communities of common interest,
• and reading the newspaper.

In the newspaper there was an article about bio-sensors or medical measuring devices built into a ring and using wireless communication to record patient vitals. I saved this article.

I also read city political news and scanned business headlines for the past month.

The paper about web searching technologies seemed to ignore that idea that communities of common interest are maybe unnatural and a way of being exclusive. But there were some eqautions made up that seemed rather arbitrary and some sort of pseudo math approach to web searching technology.

The para-psychology paper from The Journal of the Royal Institue of Philosophy was about why para-psychology or psychical research is an important philosophical topic. To state this thesis the author C. D. Broad described the limits that we generallly accept in the modern world about causation, timing of events, and mental events. He wrote this in 1949.

The numerical analysis reading I did was on about error and the occurance of error in input, problem solving and output.

The Unjust Enrichment book I am reading continued from the case it started with to a classification mapping of this area of law. Professor Ogilvie had stated that this law was not clear. Already Birks the author of the book I am reading has promised that this book will finally make this area of law clear.

In Palm programming I studied the standard Palm GUI buttons for selection by the user.

Some fellow from OCLUG gave me a set of two Debian 2.1 CD's today.

I sold an HP CD writer plus 8000 drive yesterday and today sold a 14" IBM monitor.

I spent a large part of today finding out I did not download xlibg6 an improtant library file for x windows. I tried in vain to copy the file off another computer using the floppy.

I made some French web pages today. I was given French word doc files which worked best opened in Mac text edit. Then copied and pasted to composer vola done. Now to make an index page.

I am still mostly using my eMac for day to day stuff.

I have a small update of the work web site to do tonight on the Thinkpad T30. I am still waiting for my web master pay check to come in in the mail.

I haven't worked on the Debian laptop for about 48 hours now. I sold a CD-writer out of the duron for 50$ tonight. Tomorrow I am selling the IBM 350 pentium I PC for 30$ with an IBM 14" monitor and three button USB mouse. The fellow buying it is bringing me some Debian 2.1 CD's for free.

I worked for about two hours with dselect on the debian 2.1. I needed to delete files that I downloaded to make space on the hard drive. I am not quite sure what to delete. So far I have installed a fair amount of programs inclding an email client and Perl. I have still not installed the emacs. I have installed some mouse drivers. The TP 360 no longer connect to the net as I thought it would not. I was able to edit a problem file in vi and get the process moving again.

I did some web mastering yesterday. I have about ten hours left from my client's last fiscal year. I am expecting to be paid soon and have given them an estimate for work time this coming year. I use really only my Thinkpad T30 for this work.

I spent six hours reinstalling Debian 2.1 on the Thinkpad 360SC. I figured I would only have the thing networked until my first reboot after logging in for the first time. So I downloaded as much of the debian archive for 2.1 main as I could. I was able to install a handful of applications using dselect this time. I will probably have to keep runing dselect a number of times. I am not using the best access method in dselect in other words I am not using apt. I might try to do that next.

I bid and won a Linksys etherfast PCMCIA card. I also bid on a Firewire PCMCIA card. I was surfing as well the IBM IDE PCMCIA cards and also bid on a Adaptect Slim SCSI PCMCIA card. All this shopping was on ebay.ca.

Again this week I mostly used my eMac for daily computing and web surfing and email.

I used my Palm and eMac today as well as my IBM laptop. I did some web master related phone calls. Our hydro bill is not excessive.

Just spent a half hour reading Internet law news and clearing spam out of my netscape account.

Success with networking! I got the ThinkPad 360SC connected to a Debian Archive ftp server. I got the network settings from a helpful person this morning after I requested help @ the Ottawa Canada Linux Users Group. Ok success with one more step to installing the full Debian 2.1 on the old 486 ThinkPad but dselect was a bit of problem. I guess I am learning to use dselect now but I got many many 505 file size errors on the ftp method of getting the files on dselect using apt. Oh well one problem solved another on the road to success.

My friend now also wants a LAN card from the same source namely ebay.ca. I will have to pick up another PCMCIA card later in the month for him. I also want to get an IBM IDE card from an ebay seller.

I installed Win98 on my my Duron 850 today. Now I am thinking of downloading all the Debian 2.1 archive and burning it to CD as the archive seems to be dissapearing from the net. Only one US ftp site seemed to be on-line over the past month.

A few days ago I installed the drivers for the new PCMCIA ethernet card I have for the thinkpad 360SC. I now need to figure out how to configure the thinkpad to connect to the network. I might try to reinstall and follow instructions on the Debian web site.

I have been reading about Palm programming, XML and C++ programming. I have installed various tools for programming on my WinXP laptop and my Fedora Linux machine. I have been following the examples in the books with these tools on the computers. I have also written some more of my protest dtd and posted it live on the web now. I have also been doing paid web master work.

I don't need my laptop as much now that school is out.

I did not end up using LEAVES so it was a waste of three hours of energy for up time.

I downloaded and installed Netscape 7.02 for my friends computer. I also installed Sun Java 2 and this may have started some errors on his machine. Maybe this is one of those Sun v. Microsoft things. We seemed to have gotten rid of the addware on his computer for now. It is also much faster for surfing. I also installed 11 critical updates from Microosft for his Win98.

I use the eMac only yestersay to surf ebay and listen to tunes and use iChat with my brother in Toronto. He file transfered an old tune he wrote, sang and played in the early 1980's as an mp3. Hopefully this song will be sent to the no cause for concern radio web site.

LEAVES was just booted up into Fedora.

I am becoming a programmer again. I have been studying programming the Palm and also programming in C++.

I spent about two hours trying to install Debian Linux 2.1 on an old Thinkpad 360SC. It was extremely frustrating and I stayed up late doing it and then slept a lot and had a broken sleep last night.

Tonight I read about palm programming reviewing the first two chapters that I read last week, of a book on palm programming. I then installed a POSE and unpacked the SDK files onto my Fedora machine.

I have nicked named this machine LEAVES. The machine is an IBM 325 PC server with dual Pentium II 300Mhz processors. Maybe this acronym stands for Linux Educational Application v. Enterprise Solutions. It used to be part of a super computer I build and called Lamda after the Lambda moo which was legal example we studied in LAWS3501 last winter. This example of a community dispute in an on-line community came from Lawrence Lessig's book Code: and other laws of cyberspace. This same example is in Rob Kitcin's book Cyberspace.

I now want to install a POSE on my windows laptop because I just installed GCC and an IDE for GCC on this WinXP laptop.

But for now I must sleep and attend a University President's committee meeting tomorrow. Well actually later today but I am up late in the morning.

Tonight I relaxed and read the Palm Programming book from QA 76.76 1999. I downloaded the Palm SDK for my Fedora machine. I signed up to be a Palm Developer. I could not download the files to my eMac. I also got the emulator for the Fedora and set some goals with learning Palm programming. The application I want to build will allow interviewers in the field to record answers to questions. Thus this is a statistical application. It may in fact require that this data then by conduited to something like a spreadsheet or statistical analysis software. It maybe simple enough the the palm application creates a text file of the data in some format for the PC.

I worked on the Linux intsall for the old 486 IBM thinkpad 360SC. I did reinstall Debian 2.1 base system. I tried for about two hours to copy the G++ and G77 compilers to this computer but failed. It was very frustrating.

It helps to surf the math department web pages. I found out today I could get a copy of SAS for use on my home PC. I went to school for about 15 minutes to pick up a copy and installed it on my laptop. This will help me study for a SAS certification.

I updated some news on a local union website I look after.

I am using my Mac today. Yesterday I read some of William Gibson's Count Zero on the bus with my Palm. I read chapter 1 in Al Steven's Teach Yourself C++, 7 ed., yesterday.

I got a photo copy of the article I was reading about GovML and took the book with the article back to the library.

I left my old IBM 350 with Red Hat 9 on all day. I created some folders for it on the command line and a user account using the XWindows user management program.

I read more about Palm buttons yesterday and the POSE.

I am about to do a triple back up of the IMB T30 thinkpad folders that contain data files. I do not typically back up programs just data.

My debian box seems to be having problems today. I will try to boot the old IBM 350 and see if has the POSE.

I am looking for my Linux POSE. I do not seem to have it installed on Fedora 1. I am now booting Debian to see if it is installed on that machine.

I installed Code Warrior lite on WinXP. This was from the Palm Programming book on the CDROM.

I updated Panther on my eMac. I also installed X11 and X86Free on the eMac. I could still not install Open Office on the eMac.

I applied the password function to the screen saver in WinXP. It seems to work well.

I downloaded Active Perl for Windows from the www.activestate.com web site. I was surprised that it was free to downlaod and to use in commercial work.

I did some good old volunteering today. I also attended a talk about PERL and understand its usefulness more now and am going to try it right now on my Linux computer. I chose not to write the Linux certification tests. I did not have enough time to study for them and could not afford the exams even if I found time. I spent about 4 hours studying for them but had pressures to mark tests for work and my end of term essay to write.

Tomorrow new volunteer gig in the Linux community for one day.

I am going to turn on my Linux computer. I am going to check out the Palm programming CD that came with a Palm programming book I am reading. I am checking it on the WinXP laptop first.

I have been using my laptop all week. I helped a friend try to download pictures from her digital camera. I have been using my Palm and just downloaded some free applications from PalmGear. They were legal related applications.

I made some web pages this week or rather added a company logo to some pages I am building for a non-profit group. They are paying me 12$/hour to do this work. Web workers of the world unite!

I am studying for a Linux certification this week. I will have an opporunity to write an exam for 50$ this weekend. It is the LPI level 1 exam 101.

I am tonight taking the IBM preparation tutorial part 1 for the Linux Professional Institute 101 exam.

I have posted my xml dtd to the web at this address www.crystalcomputing.net/protest_dtd.html.

I wanted to post an XML file but of course it won't come through on this SGML aware editor. I need to find an ignore html tag that will let me post it.

I got a new used printer and Epson stylus Photo 700. I also got a second canon scanner.

I took out my APTI zip drive which is 4 years old and put in another APTI zip drive in the Duron computer. the difference is only the enclosure that held the zip drive. I wanted to use one of the 3.5 bays for the zip drive so I could use the enclosed zip drive in the IBM 350.

I installed Panther on my eMac.

I am backing up my legal studies on a clik disk. This is my most portable form of laptop back up but I can not share this with desktop machines yet. For that I would need more hardware. I think I will look for this hardware on ebay now and see if I can get this clik reader cheap there.

I did update my fortune city web space.

I am updating my fedora core 1 too.

I am printing out school work this weekend.

I worked on my paying web master job a bit. I am hoping to get another pay check from this work.

I am updating my Fortune city crystal computing web space.

My brother is sending me some older computer hardware and software to get this stuff reused by others.

I am trying to get a student copy of ArcView 8 if the school will buy it for me.

I bought a 100 MB zip disk today to back up school work files. I also needed 100 MB so it could be opened in my Debian machine. I guess I could use the 250 USB zip drive on the debian too. But the debian machine has an APTI zip drive.

I also bought a new printer cartridge black for my Epson 440.

I also bought some more floppies.

If I get my marking done tonight and my school work due Monday started, I will boot up the IBM 350.

I have quite a few extra USB mice.

I managed to mount both a floppy and a zip disk in Debian.

I downloaded Microsoft v the US. I also searched out one virus case from an apellate court with a guilty verdict.

I used Lexis today at school. I will be getting a student account for this system.

Note: this is reposted from my school work blog.

I finished reading a few more domain name disputes this past week.

A few evenings ago I read an article by Bengsch, Andreas & Kopp, Heiko & Petry, Andre & Tavangarian, Djamshid. Evaluation of a Communication Environment for High-Speed Mobile Wireless LAN Clients in Bohme, Thomas & Heyer, Gerhard & Unger, Herwig eds. Innovative Internet Community Systems: Third International Workshop, IICS 2003 Leipzig, Germany, June 2003 Revised Papers (Berlin, Springer, 2003). This article describes an experiment to test data throughput and quality of transmission for a wireless LAN over various speeds of travel. They do this by placing a laptop computer in a car on a test track and driving at varying speeds and measuring the speed of the LAN transmissions between the laptop and one and two antennas which are technically called hotspots. They also measure and evaluate the effects of passing the signal off as the car passes from one antenna to the next. Each antenna has either a server or a wireless bridge to the other antenna that has the server. This seems like a very basic experimental design no different than a first year physics lab. You can see that this test of 802.11b wireless networking standard is at the cutting edge of capitalist research for telecommincations business. It figures in our lose of roots and thus alienation and also in the production of the global village by producing wireless LAN facts.

I hope to get to learning C++ from a couple of books. My brother-in-law says he is into PERL these days.

I am up and running with Fedora core 1. I tried chatting on #linuxhelp on a couple of servers using X-Chat.

My other computers are working a ok. I really have Debian 3 on the Duron now with X configured but can't get that machine on the net. Also I have an IBM 350 PC with Red Hat 9 that my friend doesn't want. So now I have three Linux computers, one Mac, and one XP laptop, also a Palm Vx. I also have a few older partial machines and boxes. I have been giving away or selling cheap some parts and I am still clearing out parts.

I am doing my monthly or bi-weekly back up of my laptop.

I downloaded Fedora Core 1 on the eMac and burned it to CD-R all three disks. I will install this on the IBM PC 325 server later today.

I taught a freind the bold html tag last night while chatting with him.

I am running three computers today at the same time using them all and running three different OS. Truth is though I am only multitasking on one of them.

I completed reading a paper about computerised legal decision making. I am reading a paper on GovML as well as this in the same AI lectures book.

I completed a paper on the law concerning secure electronic signatnatures for a school course.

I bought premium printer paper at the 7-11 yesterday and the latest issue of a Linux magazine. The magazine covered installing Fedora.

I sold an ISA network card for 5$ today.

I ran my New Millenium Duron computer with Linux but could not connect it to the net.

I started a blog at www.schizophrenia.com. and it will be for medical and self help writing.

Computers still working fine. eMac still in the living room. Cats love mice or I mean pointers.

My friend Wayne is now on-line. I helped his close friend Rob learn about Yahoo last year. Today Rob taught Wayne how to get a Yahoo UserID. I downloaded the latest Yahoo messanger.

My dad saw my computers today he was visiting from down south.

I was successful tonight installing the proper drivers on my friend's computer for his IBM Etherjet network adapter. Rogers is sending a out a techy to look at it tomorrow for him We could still not get him on-line.

I paid for www.crystalcomputing.net my personal home page for two years domain registration.

I found a Win98 driver for the Zip 250 USB drive. This driver will fit on a floppy. This should enable us to install the drivers on Wayne's computer. First the zip drive drivers, then the network card drivers and also the modem drivers for his IBM computer.

The eMac in the living room was used to watch a DVD with some friends. I used my Red Hat 9 machine to do some legal studies research using Monzilla and the school library and Open Office of keep notes. I then emailed that to my laptop and printed it out for my studies binder.

I was advising a friend on buying ink and paper for his printer. It is his first printer. No he doesn't work in the IT sector.

I put my eMac in the living room. I used an old box to cover the keyboard and mouse so that the cat does not wake up the eMac. She loves the computer screen and would love to play with the things on the screen. I have restratined her so far.

I put the DSL modem and router in the living room too. I only have my older computers in the office now and of course can use the laptop quietly back here too.

I have not been using my new Linux install. I must be aware of putting my eMac to sleep with the floppy plugged in there are issues with this action. I need to prepare a report for work with charts and writing. I should do this next week. I am working at some high tech company tonight.

I used open office on my laptop and inserted a chart from a spread sheet in a presentation.

I tried to installl Open Office on the mac and have some Lib wrong. I told other people to download Open Office.

I did some computer analyst work yesterday and got paid.

I got Debian 3 installed with an SQL server on my Duron box now with X working fine. I created my standard personal workstation directories or "Folders" in my home directory.

I backed up my laptop, yesterday. I also packed up my Palm, yesterday.

My friend got an all-in-one printer, scanner, fax machine. His music teacher who is also his employer bought it for him.

I was successful installing Debian 3 on my duron computer again. This time I got X but failed to set the mouse right. I will try again today.

I helped a friend shop for a printer while chatting with him in yahoo messenger.

I hope to update two community group web sites tonight. I updated one just now. Here is the links page on the site: http://accessibility-ottawa.ncf.ca/links.html. The other site is not live yet well it is but I don't want anyone looking at it yet. We intend to launch in late March. I am actually getting paid for this second one.

I have a cold so my laptop is getting messy from sneezing and worse. We have a cat now so maybe she will step on the keys sometimes and send you an email =:+).

I used export to pdf today in Open Office. I am going to test it out on a whole book now and send it to a publisher for a test. He will be geting a modem and some computer speakers from me soon. He is borrowing a newer printer of mine too. Here is his web site at the National capital FreeNet: www.ncf.ca/~bh295 The Freenet is at www.ncf.ca

I used gcc yesterday but failed to run a short program from learning C on the Macintosh. I printed web pages and open office documents all last week and this week for school work. I worked on a questionnaire for some paid work. I also have not been working on the web site job. I did though re-register my own domain again at www.crystalcomputing.net.

I spent the last two hours configuring my PDA, my eMac and my cell phone.

I don't like modern ecommerce with its dependence on driver's licence numbers and credit card numers. This creates exlcusion in access to digital services.

My computers are working fine. I kept notes at a public meeting on my Palm. I kept notes at school during a lecture on my laptop. My Espon 440 is working fine.

With my new USB floppy drive it will be possible to copy files to floppy at school and load them on a school machine and print them using the disabled students resource centre in the library. Cool, I can now do last minute edits like after my proof readers read my final copies of essays.

I was surfing again with Linux just now.

I have downloaded GRASS 5 for Linux. The GRASS server was very busy so I did not finish that tonight. I did install ArcExplorer on my ThinkPad and opened some old school work map of Ottawa complete with community centre catchment areas. This data belongs to the Ottawa-Carleton Social Planning Council.

I used Linux to access my schools connect portal. I am not done with Linux yet tonight.

I am reading a book on GIS and the Law. I read the introduction and first chapter so far. This book is by George Cho a professor of geography and law in Australia.

I spent about half an hour validating HTML code with the W3's html validator. I was able to validate a few pages at
www.webpagex.org my computer ethics web site.

My computers are still running fine. I gave away an old case, four CDROM drives, two sound cards, two modems, one network card, and one small 125MB hard drive to PC's for Kids, today.

My computers are running fine. I did try an install of NT 4 on my duron this weekend but failed. The duron only seems to accept a base debian install. I will not have a lot of computer specific work to do this term at school. I do have a paying web master job now. I am donating some computer parts to a computers for kids program up the Ottawa valley. I have been using my Palm and programming in BASIC for the Palm this weekend. I read my plastic notes sheet for PERL. I also invested in a plastic notes sheet for Linux. I haven't been running Linux for a couple of days because I have been working in a non-computer related job. I am back at school today where I will be learning to use an on-line law database for legal research.