As we use computers longer they get broken with software conflicts and less hard drive space. I was updating windows and did as I said get Intel networking updated but updating an IBM PM device software caused me to loose my stand by and hibernate functions on the winXP laptop. I was also not able to update the ATI radeon 7500 card. I am thinking of buying a late model pentium III thinkpad with CD burner to install Debian on.

In the past week I have been cleaning up my windos laptop. I deleted iso images and also deleted downloaded program install files for free software or software I can download again for free. I also defraged the hard drive and cleaned up the hard drive with disk clean up. I uninstalled the weather channel which got downloaded with Netscape and made for such a terribly slow start up. I also did a windows update but had installation problems with some hardware updates from third parties. My ATI Radeon 7500 video card in the laptop could not be updated. I was able to get new drivers for Intel 10/100 networking.

I finally got an email saying that my iBook 300 Mhz laptop has been shipped and should arrive at the end of this week. I had been worrying because the person who sold me this used computer had not contacted me for weeks. Now I can find some parts for it with more confidence.

I am starting to pick up some parts for my iBook which still hasn't arrived in the mail. Right now I am trying to win a 10GB drive in ebay.ca.

I am just completing my email transfer using dotmac to the eMac from outlook on my PC. I also found my "lost" netscape email and copied that over ethernet to my Mac and imported it to Mac OSX mail. This means most of my received mail from March 2001 until today is now on my Mac.

I listened to David Suzuki on the bus. His lecture was colourful but he admits to taking a purely scientific world view. I am against this. I am not against good science I just believe Suzuki does not crtique science the way it should be these days. The basic knowledge needs more thought. Also science as a world view and as a way of knowing nature is not really the only or best way.

I heard a Yukon artist on the TV arguing that we could not have a pure state of nature but we could temper our use of resources and justify our use and control and use less of nature and still survive. I like this view better than Suzuki's.

Suzuki is very famous and has probably done a lot of good.

I downloaded some mp3's from www.oneworld.ca David Suzuki spoke recently at the National Farmers Union Convention held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He spoke about biotechnology. I just downloaded his lecture as mp3 files. The mp3's were provided by http://www.makingthelinksradio.ca

I am just about to burn some back ups of my own computer files and email. I will also be burning some CD's for a community group I keep records for to give to other members on Saturday at our monthly meeting.

My computers are working fine now. I kept some minutes at a meeting today on my Palm W and emailed them to the office upstairs from the meeting. I have yet to do my CD back ups but I have read all my paper hard copy back ups of my blogs. They seem ok.

I have now transfered all my outlook express mail from 2001 April to 2005 March. This is not all the email I received. And I have yet to transfer sub folders and sent email.

I printed my blogs out in hard copy for the month of June. This was three blogs. I also saved the entries for June on all three of these blogs as word 97 files using Open Office 1.1.4.

I paid for the iBook today. An old friend contacted me through yahoo messenger. I helped a friend use the bus companies schedule on the web. It is one hour now until I do my back ups. Our internet service was down today a bit nation wide. I have been reading about the success factors in a silicon valley. This book I am reading this in was written here in Ottawa.

I need to start thinking about monthly back ups again. This time I think I will burn two CD's for the PC one with email and one with my own files. Second I will burn one CD or two for my Macintosh. I will also print out my blogs on Canada day. I need to buy some more recycled paper and will pick that up today at Staples. I have plenty of ink that I bought at school.

I started to download podcasts. I tried the inside mac radio show and searched some Canadian podcasts. There was an interesting graduates podcast in Canada but I could not get it to work in the iTunes music store. I am only trying free podcasts so far. The inside mac podcast lead me to some mac support sites that I could buy memory at.

I bought a clamshell iBook on ebay. It cost 250$ CND. I managed after about a week or surfing, searching and bidding to get an iBook that is in good shape and costs less than others that were sold this past week. The seller's feedback is only 1 though so I am taking a bit of a risk but the person seems alright and the deal will be paid for tomorrow. The delivery will be by UPS. This iBook will need more memory and also perhaps I could install a 40 or 60 GB hard drive. I would also need a copy of Mac OS X Tiger to put on the new hard drive. That is my next big mac software upgrade to my Macs.

I just updated iTunes to 4.9 on my Mac and on my PC. It won't run on my other computers.

I acessed the green party web site and wrote a reply about a web based database of the gun control registry. Someone wanted to estimate the costs. I posted something about the requirements possibly needed.

I am using my PSP regularly now. I now own four UMD movies. There are about 50 movies or so for sale at amazon.com and this is growing all the time. Like other corporate money making schemes it is designed to get bigger and produce more trash for our planet. I caught some news about AMD suing Intel today.

The dot mac IMAP server is taking some getting used to. I have transferred to my eMac Mac OSX mail, all 2001, 2002 and 2003 email from my inbox on my Outlook Express on my WinXP laptop.

It is the end of a long day. A lot has been achieved this morning. I was finally able to transfer email to my eMac and Mac Mail application from my Windows Outlook Express email application. It will take maybe another 20 hours to complete this task.

I am following exact instructions given at Apple support pages. I using a trial account at dot Mac to use dot Mac's IMAP email server to upload from windows then download email to the eMac. I have 600 MB to transfer. I have to do this in small portions as the IMAP server account at dot Mac has a 30MB limit.

I am making a lot of copies of email stores on the eMac and need to delete these backups and organisational tools after I am done. By orgainsational tools I mean I am seperating large inboxes to temporary folders to make it easier to sort the uploaded and then downloaed emails into the eMac inbox and not miss a single email. Back up store folders are just a standard precaution.

I was also able to help a friend back up his email in Win98 and next week I will help him install his new 80GB hard drive. I will not loan him my copy of Windows. He will still run win98. I have given him a linux computer as well. There is a balance there.

I installed my new colour ink cartridge on my Espon 440 in the office. I am also working in Open Office and Word to write a brief legal paper for my spring term work in my public law course where there is nothing to learn about computers and the law. I am happy with this. But in fact I did learn to download the professor's power point slides from last term then when this terms slides are posted I "save target as" and then as I save, I delete last term's power point file and replace it with the fresh download all in the same "save as" dialogue box.

I bought new ink cartridges for my printers today. I almost bought an iSight camera for my eMac but did not. It was too much money for the use I would get out of it. Also I do not have a spare 165 dollars to spend on this or any computer thing right now. The other things I bought today that were computer related was a Linux magazine and also a UMD disk for my PSP although that is really entertainment related. I also bid on about five iBooks on ebay but did not remain the winning bidder on any of them. I also can not afford the going price of an old clamshell iBook. So I am not getting an iBook soon. I also got a shipping quote on an old HP workstation X500 with dual Xeon pentium III 500 processors and would need 95 dollars US for the shipping. One of these could be my linux box and my next computer.

I used the local for sale computer newsgroup to try to raise some funds by selling some computer parts.

I have had to use Microsoft's Word to count words in my legal studies paper.

I am printing using my Epson 820 photo stylus.

I paid for my wireless email today. It cost 81 dollars for a month and a half. This was mostly the initial set up charges for the wireless carrier. The Palm platform was 270$ last Christmas. The email software was 65$ this past weekend. It has already helped me with my TA work to be able to access my school email account while traveling to school.

I have watched a movie while going home from work now. After giving two labs on minitab last night I was taking a later train and needed to wait half an hour. I watched Spiderman 2 while waiting for the train and then watched it on the train.

I downloaded some Java software to view a map collection at http://www.davidrumsey.com/.

I backed up my present school work files that are on my PC to my eMac using my home network. I am becoming slightly more attracted to the Apple platform this past week and this week. I might save up and buy a 20GB iPod and could use this iPod for remote file storage as well as music.

I had to stop the debian 3.1 install again on the Thinkpad 760. I am going to put the win98 hard drive in this computer and give it to a friend I think. I will first need to fix the power switch which is now broken.

I am redoing the Debian 3.1 install and this time will not install a whole system in one step but instead go package by package.

I would now like to explore R and all the new R and Debian features. This past year I downloaded and installed R for the first time. This year I have learned to use R and have completed some formal training in the use of R for data mining. Next winter in 2006 I may be able to use R for other statistical techniques and also theoretical statistics.

The Thinkpad 360SC is running KDE alright. It is using virtual screens so my mouse moves the screen around. So far I can access all buttons. I went through KDE setup tonight. I changed the time and then shut down. I also checked to see what applications had been installed and there were enough for basic computer operation, word processing, spread sheets, slide shows, and also a few other editors. There is no graphic web browser but there is lynx.

I am installing Debian 3.1r0 on the Thinkpad 760ED right now and it going very smoothly. Except that just now I ran out of space installing a desktop machine. I should have done it package by package. This is a new installer in 3.1.

I am well fed after my wife and I cooked supper. I am going to mark some statistics labs done in Minitab after I boot up the 486 Thinkpad and see if KDE is still there. I will only test it a little then mark the student's home work for a couple of hours. Then I will record a public law lecture on TV from a loaned tape then if I am still awake I will install Debian 3.1 on the pentium 133 MHz Thinkpad.

My laptop and my Fedora workstation are both working fine. Also my eMac is fine and was used for ordering printing of photos over the web. My palm is also working fine and I will buy Snapper professional for my email on this unit this coming week. My PSP is also working fine and I put some video on it that I made on my canon sure shot 100 digital camera.

I have started to rip CD's or in real words to make mp3 files from music CD's I own so I can play songs on my computer and other digital music devices. I am just getting into mp3's that I make myself using windows media player and my Cd collection. I am thinking more about buying an iPod.

I am about to back up some folders on my computer. This is the regular monthly back ups. I will also save and maybe print my blogs out.

I have just copied my outlook express email folder to a folder and will burn it to CD now. This will be both a back up CD and a way that I will try to transfer my email to my eMac. I will read Apple.ca's switch guide may be to help me with this.

I completed my fiscal 2004 web work for the Eastern Regional Network of consumer survivor organisations. I built them this web site and maintain it.

www.eastern-regional-network.org

I did an hour of webmastering for pay just now. I caught the release of confidential information and got a public document to post to the ERN web site rather than the confidential document. I had to view as source as well as composer made some errors in the html source file. All is well now and the fresh updated web pages are on the web. I must draw up a contract for this web work for fiscal 2005.

I got Grass to open the Spearfish data today and used some command line code from a book to produce some maps. I then explained somethings about GIS and Grass to my brother in an email.

I just loaded my palm up with pdf's of journal articles and also lecture slides from my spring/summer public law course.

I succeeded to get Grass working on both my Macintosh and on my Windows computer but do not know how to use Grass yet. I have gotten it to launch the sample Speafish data on both computers now. I also was able to borrow a book from the library on how to use Grass and read the first chapter now.

I changed the background on my blog.

My eMac apple macintosh computer. 

an old IBM that I installed Red Hat 9 onto. 

My Linux monitor 

I finally beat my auction over spending. I bid a few dollars on three items and did not go back and raise my bid on any of the three. I won two out of the three. This is really the way to buy by not spending more than a few dollars. I can not make the mistake of raising my bids anymore.

I spent about 4 hours surfing my high school's web site and communicating with other former students.

I am about to burn a cygwingrass CD from an ISO image.

I downloaded Grass 6 for the Mac and got it to work. I also am trying to put it on my windows computer. I may not succeed at this as my windows computer knowledge is not as deep as might be needed.

I did not use the Palm actually in the field. We used printed copies of our book inventory. I had some problems with the inventory file on the palm. I transfered some lecture power points to the palm but needed to install power point 97 onto my laptop. I now have installed the complete Office 97 on the laptop.

I got a free DVD at the Montreal Anarchist bookfair about the terrorist attacks in the USA. I got a 512 memory stick duo to listen to songs on the PSP. I also got a new SD 256MB card for my palm.

I have not really used Snapper much but it is my choice for an email application on the palm. I had some tech help from them to get it working on the palm.

I checked out the new Life Drive from Palm. I will have to wait until the price drops but am actually not interested in the featues of the newest palm. I prefer to have a mini keyboard so my upgrade path will be to the Treo 650 in a year or two.

I am using my Palm Tungsten W in the field today. We will be using it to monitor and record inventory as we sell books at a bookfair. We are using documents to go and an excel spread sheet to do this.

I got the palm a wireless account with Rogers A T & T. I am testing out Snapper for email on the palm and it seems to work fine. This will cost me about 25$ a month.

The power switch on the IBM 760 may be broken. So that is about 160$ down the drain. I am now trying to sell the Thinkpad to recover my costs. I may try to attempt this hardware repair myself.

I received the 32 MB memory chip for the IBM Thinkpad 760ED. It worked fine. I was able to install Debian 3. My mistake was with mounitng hard drive partitions. Still even with the added memory Red Hat 9 would not fit on the hard drive. I need about a 2 GB drive to work with Red Hat 9. I tried using a boot manager suggested by some linux helper but was not able to get it working. Also I could not find a boot floppy image on the Fedora core 3 CD.

Last night I tried editing the XF86Config file but no luck getting X working yet.

I got the other things I bought for the 760 Thinkpad yesterday in the mail. Both the hard drive and the CD drive work fine. With the CD drive I was able to install the win98 drivers for the Linksys ethernet card and managed to get high speed internet to this pentium 1 laptop. With the second hard drive I was able to start both a Red Hat 9 Linux install and also a Debian Linux 3.0 install. But the Debian Linux kept crashing at the end of the base install. Also the Red Hat 9 needs more memory so I will have to wait for the 32Mb RAM to arrive and should proably afford another 32M RAM chip in the future.

I made my monthly back up CD for April. This time backing up school work and a sub My Documents folder. I did not yet back up email. I also have now hard copied my two blog spot blogs. I just need to hard copy a couple of more blogs and I am done for April.

Both the Thinkpad I bought used, and the Zip drive work. I bought them both on ebay. I got the Thinkpad connected to the net earlier this morning and am updating its Windows software. This old thinkpad was not connected to the net by the previous owner and the thought occured to me to keep this computer off the net but first I will update it. It might be possible to only use it on the net when installing software updates.

I have discovered some issues with installing Debian on it concerning the rescue boot disk and can not find a previously ftp available version of the rescue floppy for this model Thinkpad. There is another way of installing Debian from CD and the instructions on how to boot into the CD are available but I will have to wait for the CD drive to arrive. I will also wait for a second hard drive to install Debian on and wait for a 32MB RAM upgrade.

I did not work on this laptop project much yesterday. Mostly I worked on it this morning. Besides a short break for legal studies and one for reading today's newspaper I have been working on the computers for most of what is now almost a 20 hour day.

Yesterday I tried out the Iomega zip drive in my Thinkpad T30. It works fine. This means I have saved 200$ on the purchase of this IBM accessory. From there I copied files off a zip disk then tried to get my old back up 20GB IBM drive to work in my USB external enclosure. It worked a little but the Thinkpad T30 would not see the format on the hard drive. In my attempts to get this working I used the installed Virtual PC and installed Win98 on the virutal PC. This didn't work and I spent time updating this virtual install of Win98. I had yesterday morning tried to install Debian on the virutal PC but was unsure about partitioning so stopped myself.

I then put the DVD drive back in the T30 and explored old back up CD's. I had some success in importing email from old email stores from April 2001 to April 2002. I also copied lot of old work files to the newer T30. So back ups were proving effective. I also want to do this email process with my Mac so I can have all my email on two newer computers that I use regularly.

I got my IBM 20 GB drive to connect in the USB box but it could not be read on the winXP laptop. Also on the laptop I used Microsoft Virtual PC to install win98 and then updated this.

This somehow led me to trying old back up CD's and I restored email from April 2001-April 2002 to my present copy of Outlook Express. During this time I was using my Aptiva computer. After April 2002 I used Win98 on the duron computer. In April 2003 I got my eMac and all the email on that machine is still accessible but not backed up. Also much of the email from September 2003 until now is on the WinXP laptop. I am just investigating old back up CD's tonight and copying some files to the T30 laptop. I might repeat this on the eMac.

I installed the 250MB zip drive on the IBM T30. It works fine and cost about 20$ a savings of about 200$ over the IBM store price. But now I need to manage two disk drives when I travel with the IBM.

I am waiting to install Fedora Core 3 on the Thinkpad 760ED until I get another 32MB RAM for this machine. For now it has win98.

I failed to install Debian on either the laptop or the duron. Today I got the IBM Thinkpad 760ED in the mail. It has Win98 installed right now. It seems to work fine. I also got a 250MB zip disk for my IBM Thinkpad T30 and will now try that drive out by installing it.

I am attempting to install Debian 3 r2 on the duron computer again. This OS has successfully been installed recently so I am trying again. I will also try a microsoft virutal PC program and install Fedora core 3 on the laptop with win XP.

I am again attempting to install an operating system on the clone Duron machine. I failed to install Fedora 1 core today. Now I am trying WinXP pro.

There is a computer book store closing on one of our main streets here. This past week they were offering three books for five dollars. I bought these three books:

LeVitus, Bob. Mac OS X Panther for Dummies (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2004).

I am running panther right now on my eMac

Hall, Jon 'maddog', & Sery, Paul G. Red Hat Linux Fedora for Dummies (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2004).

I am running Fedora Core 3 on my IBM PC sever right now.

Pouge, David. Palm Pilot: the Ultimate Guide: Mastering the Palm Organizers from Pilot 1000 to Palm VII (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 1999).

I have owned a Palm IIIxe, a Palm Vx and now a Palm Tungsten W.

Yesterday the same store offered fifteen books for five dollars and the clerk threw in an extra book AOL for Dummies. These are six of the sixteen books I bought:

Pouge, David. Palm Pilot: the Ultimate Guide: Mastering the Palm Organizers from Pilot 1000 to Palm VII (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 1999).

The copy I bought earlier in the week was missing the CD so I bought another copy with the CD this time

Pouge, David.The iBook for Dummies (Foster City, CA: IDG, 2000).

I have wanted an early model iBook. I have used someone else's iBook for surfing while on holidays.

Claverie, Jean-Michel, & Notredame, Cedric. Bioinformatics for Dummies (New York, NY, Wiley, 2003).

I have a passing interest in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics

Tejkowski, Erick. Cocoa Programming for Dummies (New York, NY: Wiley, 2003).

I have not programmed Macs much.

Kaufeld, John. AOL for Dummies (New York, NY: Wiley, 2003).

Wolinsky, Howard, & Wolinsky, Judi. Healthcare Online for Dummies (New York, NY: Hungry Minds, 2001).

I got a OS X Panther for Dummies, Fedora Core Linux for Dummies and an O'Reilly book on the Palm Pilot all for 5$ at a computer book store closing sale. I might go back there later today get some more books.

I did win an IBM 760ED Thinkpad laptop on ebay.ca this week. I also won some accessories like a floppy drive, a CD drive, another 1.2 GB hard drive and 32 MB RAM memory for this laptop. I also bought a zip drive for my T30 Thinkpad. All this spending amounted to about 150$ CND. The 760 was about 106 CND the accessories were fairly cheap.

After success with the IBM 360Cs I am now trying to buy an IBM 760ED thinkpad and will install Debian on this too. I may need to invest in some more RAM and also would get a zip drive for this model. Total cost maybe something like 180$.

I did some R coding using the xess editor. I did this on the winxp laptop. I have been surfing the web on my Fedora machine for a few days now. It seems very stable. I think my next machines will be an older IBM thinkpad and a Pentium III 900 dual processor 1 U server either compaq or HP.

I moved my laptop to my Mexican office desk in front of my TV. I will buy a new 25' ethernet cable today and have a 10' printer cable so so far the move of the laptop is ok.

I am expecting a memory stick pro duo 512MB card at the school bookstore soon. I am also expecting a new pair of glasses.

I did some updating of a contact list for the self help network. So I am just about completed the web mastering contract hours and need to invoice for another five hours.

I was finally successful at getting a popular Linux desktop(KDE 2.2.2) installed on my old IBM Thinkpad 486 laptop that cost me 55$ on ebay plus another 15$ for some more memory. It took me hours and hours to learn about Debian and many unsuccessful tries but I finally got it earlier this morning. Yahoo I am a Linux engineer.

I uninstalled the demo copies of Scientific Notebook and Scientific Word on my winXP Thinkpad T30. I may later buy these softwares but did not use them much. I also have not really used Laytex or Tex yet much at all. I do use Maple, Matlab, R and SAS most on Windows computers but also on Mac computers.

I tried installing the Debian desktop environment and x windows on the Thinkpad 360Cs. I needed to rm Gimp and then unselect mozilla in dselect and then unselect gimp. I don't have a good xf86configure file yet but everything is installed and configured. I need to change my video driver to vga16 and should have done more research before configuring x windows the first time. Maybe I will run tasksel again to see if it allows me to change the driver. I can't seem to install the driver I need with dselect or apt-get. I used yahoo's Linux room a bit for support. I also found a new battery for sale for this Thinkpad on ebay for about 70$ CND.

I ran my IBM PC server with Fedora as a workstation all day. I did email with it. I surfed ebay and other ecommerce web sites. I also updated my blogs at blogspot with it. I kept my laptop in use right beside it for school work mostly. I regularly switched back and forth between the two machines.

I did a lot of printing today. I printed a 124 page document mostly with 12 pages per sheet of paper by printing 6 pages side by side on one side of a sheet and then six pages side by side on the other side of the sheet. I also printed about 30 sheets containing a 61 page document actually a pdf of my lecture notes for tomorrow´s class. And now I am printing more wastefully my honours paper of 40 pages a page per sheet. So all in all I printed about 12+15+40 = 67 sheets of paper today. I read about 6 of these sheets. I also printed a few others sheets.

But this last 40 page document is mostly my own writing and in one week will be rewritten to be almost only my writing. It will be submitted next Monday as my honours final essay. It is just printing out right now and I will read it before going to sleep.

I ran some R code today and managed the 10 fold cross validation and a simple neural net. I also read histograms and did a brut force catagorization tree and plan to do some R code tomorrow that implements this tree on the ten fold cross validation. The comparisom was of histograms for two catagories and this allows one to see when one variable is higher than the same variable for another catagory. Yes trees are very initutitve.

I also read a little about cyborgs and feminism this weekend and all week on the buses I have been reading about women students in the computer sceince program at Carnegie Melon University.

I burned a back up CD of my two deep My Documents folder. This My Docments folder originally was on my Toshiba 420CD Win98 laptop. I don´t run any win98 computers anymore. Speaking of Windows I am going to replace the motherboard and memory and processor for my duron box. I will keep the power supply, case, and drives. I also back up my outlook express email store folder at the same time to the same CD. I also have started to use evolution for email on my Fedora box.

I also burned my first iTunes CD for my wife. I am going to back up my school work folder to CD next.

I stopped myself from buying a memory stick duo 256MB on credit. I have not been using my PSP much. I did download some open source Japanese software to make videos for the PSP and tested it out on windows and on mac. Each platform needed a different software. The PSP was released in Japan first. I checked out games at the department store downtown.

I am just printing out my blogs in hard copy now for the month of March. I have run out of blank CD´s and will got buy some this morning. I am doing this update with my Fedora/Linux computer.

I have a datamining assignment to do as I upgrade my statistics education. The assignment is to filter spam. I have been given some 4601 observations or emails. I have 57 variables based on word frequency, character frequency and capitals frequency and length. Then the 58th variable is 1 or 0 depending on whether the email is spam or not. So this is supervised learning. I was able to open this data set in both R and SAS. In SAS I did a proc means and also a proc chart. I have 58 histograms coming out of SAS. I am printing these histograms 4 per page on both sides of the page. I am also printing the results of the proc means.

I learned to rip mp3's using windows media player. I just needed to change my export format in windows media player. I got mp3 files for Woody Guthrie and Bruce Cockburn. I can play these on my new PSP. I also got a Pelican carrying case for my PSP. I can't play my iTunes yet on my PSP. The PSP screen really is very good and I have been watching the demo movie Spiderman 2.

I have installed the latest Apple security update on my eMac. I tried to install solaris 8 on my duron but the video card was not supported. I have installed scientific word and scientific notebook as demo copies. I have also purchased Notron Internet security 2005. I have downloaded Windows 2000 and Map Point 2004 from the msdn server. I will burn the mapping software today to disk. As a math student at Carleton we are given free copies of microsoft software.

I hot synced my palm late last night. I uploaded some pdf files about computer crime and also about using Perl for statistics to my palm.

I downloaded sceintifc notebook and scientific workplace as trial copies.

I updated my studies blog and burned a back up CD. I also transfered homework to my memory key so I can work on it at school. I printed lecture notes and meeting previous minutes for two meetings I have today as a volunteer.

I know a little bit more about using R now. I got some homework done in data mining using R. I also taught SAS coding this week just past. I also bought a second copy of the Little SAS book at a medical bookstore.

I printed out back up copies of my blogs. I should now be doing a back up of the data on my hard drives with CD's. I have been thinking of buying a DVD burner but find I need firewire or at least USB 2.0 to use a DVD burner. Just like CD burners more power is needed to get them to work properly.

I installed French for Dummies on my winxp laptop. I did try again to install WinXP pro on the duron but failed and then tried Win98 but failed then went back to Debian. I have been using R and Ggobi. To document my work with Ggobi I have used alt-print screen and pasted the active window capture into an Open Office presentation. I showed ggobi to my nephew and niece.

I am interacting with the federal government on-line. I took minutes of a large union meeting with my Palm W. I will also have a union meeting this week on Wednesday and keep minutes of this upcoming meeting on the union office's laptop as usual. I just hotsynced my Palm. I will prepare my monthly backups later tonight.

Saturday morning I began my data mining homework by printing some histograms and pairs plots. I also read about Tibetan Guerillas fighting the Chinese in the 1950'.

I read a little of the Linux journal. I ran my Fedora machine tonight just to chat with a friend using Gaim. Now I am going to read about laytex and tex and write a mini paper on privacy.

For some reason as yet unknown I have lost all my netscape bookmarks on my WinXP laptop.

I upgraded skype on my WinXP laptop. I also updated iTunes on the laptop.

I upgraded the Netscape www browser on the Quadra to v 4.06. This is the highest I think can go with a 68 K mac. I also installed Illustrator 6.0 on the Quadra. I also copied some other older Mac programs and files I had stored on floppy for about 6 years.

I have been working on the eMac more tonight. I priced an 8 port linksys switch and a net connected hard drive. I also need a license for Norton Internet Security. I also want a multi card reader from Iomega.

I am thinking of getting a new 8 port Linksys switch. I am also thinking of buying a 250GB net drive for off loading my WinXP laptop and doing email back up.

I am back on my mac and an old friend will be buying the Quadra 800.

I am just about to burn my monthly back up CD. I made hard copy of my blogs Tuesday morning.

I got the Macintosh Quadra hooked up to the Internet but need to download a more recent version of Netscape for this older computer. It only has Netscape 3.0.1 right now and it does not work on the apple.com homepage.

My computers are running fine. My eMac updated itself with iTunes 4.7.1 and a security update. My Quadra 800 is now running Mac OS 8. I have not yet connected it to the Internet. My laptop hard drive is getting full and is almost at 75% full. I do though have two Turbo Linux CD's on it I can delete and some Microsoft CD's I can delete. First, I must burn the CD's and then delete. I got ESS xemac working on the WinXP laptop.

I got a relatively inexpensive SD 64 MB card for my palm. I guess I should get a relativley inexpensive card reader now. The trick with a new card and a palm is to format the card for the Palm first. This can be done by transfering one file in the usual way when the card is in the palm. This formats the card and then one can add files using a card reader and a PC.

I got some more no name ink for two of my Epson printers.

The copy of Mac OS 8 arrived and I installed it on the Quadra with no issues. I used Disk Setup a Mac program to initialise the hard drive which was not an original Mac hard drive. So I now have another 68K Mac to give or sell to someone who needs a computer. It also has a nice colour monitor and colour printer.

My Palm Tungsten W works with Rogers AT&T wireless. I tested it with a Rogers sim card yesterday at a Rogers booth at the mall. Yahoo I can get it doing the Internet over the wireless phone network.

I am just a wanna be engineer at heart. Some of friends are also wanna be engineers. In fact, my ethinc background in Canada is full of engineers. I talked with another engineer who also has schizohrenia when I got off work on Sunday morning and he was off to church.

Yahoo is doing well and IBM is also doing well. There are service jobs at IBM I could apply for. In fact I need to focus my career a bit more perhaps not around computers but instead law enforcment.

I could not install Open Office on the Macintosh because of some Free Fonts issue. I could not get grass 5.4 to run under cygwin. I could do all the install steps for cygwin and grass 5.4 though. I did successfully install Open Office 1.1.4 on the Win XP laptop. I also was able to install a 10 day demo of Grammarian Pro x on the eMac. I have not tried my new version of grass on the eMac.

I learned a directory address with a space such as My Documents can be refered to by inclosing it in single quotes in a call directory command. Thus cd 'My Documents' works whereas cd My Documents does not.

I read a legal paper on cyber pornography that covered European legislation. I search Computers and Society and also some other ACS journals. I printed numerous articles at least 8 articles for my law paper and my data mining course. I actually read one article just now too. I loaded some new journal pdf's to my plam and would need a SD card to add more papers for my Palm. I tried to activate my Palm cell phone but I need a sim card for sure for that.

I cleared out spam in three email lists I manage for a union. Google spam addresses are the latest spam feature.

I am downloading the latest versions of Open Office for my Macintosh eMac and my WinXP laptop. I might download it for my Debian KDE desktop and maybe for my Fedora box. I am also downloading the latest version of Grass for my Mac now.

I am just making links between all the French and English pages of this web site http://www.eastern-regional-network.org/.

My Palm W is working good now. It can not easily play mp3's so I am not bothering. With the newist Apple iPod ( Shuffle) costing about 200$ I might buy one of those at school if I need an mp3 player which I really don't need as I am fine with my Sony Walkman FM radio. But you never know the shuffle iPod would be fine for our needs. Also my Palm W is fine for pictures so I have no real need for an iPod photo now.

Also I have not gotten the cell phone working on the Palm W. I need to go to a cell phone store and see if their sim cards will work on this Palm before I can sign up for cell phone service. Also I have one more year on my present cell phone contract so don't need another cell phone right now.

I chatted at Yahoo's Linux room and was told about www.linux.iso.org. I am downloading Turbo Linux 7.0 workstation right now. I have an original copy of Turbo workstation 6.0.

I am bidding at ebay.ca for the original Mac OS 8 cd. I won this item for 15$ CND including shipping.

I only spent 2.97 at iTunes and did not buy whole albumns just three songs; all Deep Purple.

I should be getting my Palm W today and will be using Palm's suggestions for getting a more recent palm and transfering PIM information.

I got a CD-ROM from my data mining course and installed or reinstalled versions of R, GGobi, and xemacs and ess that will work with our course. I did some path adjustments but could not get ess working. I need to revisit John's page at Mcmaster and use his help files. This is fun software especially GGgobi is good for entertainment while being a useful tool.

I am going to spend more than 10 dollars at iTunes today. I am going to buy Deep Puprle and also Yes albumns.

I got my Quadra working on a bare Mac OS 7.5 with only networking from this Apple page http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html with these files:

Macintosh/System/Older_System/System_7.5_Version_7.5.3/System_7.5.3_Info.txt

This files explains what to do to install system 7.5 if you don't have an OS I think. Anyways it also explains how to use self mounting images but I have to download them to the Quadra first. So I need to network the Quadra to a Mac ethertalk server.

Macintosh/Utilities/Network_Access_Disk_7.5.sea.bin

This software was used to network the Quadra and I got it working. But first I had to put the file on a floppy as an image file.

Macintosh/Utilities/Network_Access_Disk_7.5.txt

This is the how to file to use the network OS 7.5 file ibid. The method would not work on my eMac and I need to use my old Powerbook 140.

Macintosh/Utilities/Disk_Copy/Disk_Copy_4.2.txt

This how to file allowed me to create an imgage of the network OS 7.5 on a floppy that worked on the Quadra

Macintosh/Utilities/Disk_Copy/Disk_Copy_4.2.sea.bin

This is the image creation software I used on the Powerbook 140 to make the network boot disk for the Quadra.

In the end I got ethertalk working on the Quadra but my eMac won't work as server with the old OS. It was an intersting and frustrating learning experience and yes I took my frustrations out on innocent passers by.

Here is a kind of pushing technology blog on blogspot but be warned it is broadband. http://entreter.blogspot.com/.

I added my Live journal site to this site's side bar and also added another friend's Live Journal site.

I worked for a few hours on my paid web work. I also got a Live Journal blog today at this address http://www.livejournal.com/users/pierre_anoid/. I will add it to my side bar now.

My clone computer with the huge tower case, 3.5 floppy, 5.25 floppy, zip drive, CD and 20GB hard drive, 256MB memory and AMD 850 duron chip is working now with Debian 3.0 r2. I have KDE functioning now.

Meanwhile my mom needs a new modem. I gave her some advice on this. I may help her get a new computer. For myself I am curious to get an old Mac Power PC and may get something like a Powerbook 3400. My friend should be coming by this week to get his Quadra 660AV and 16" monitor. My other friend is starting to think of getting a new computer too.

On My WinXP laptop: I uninstalled Microsoft Visual Studio. I also uninstalled R 1.9 and installed the latest R 2.0.1. I then cleaned up my disk space and defraged my hard drive. I later in the morning installed Ggobi. I got Ggobi to work using Di Cook's data from her paper(below). I used perldoc for the first time this morning and read an article in the Journal of Statistical Software on using PERL for statistics. It was Baiocchi, Giovanni. "Using Perl for Statistics: Data Processing and Statistical Computing" (2004) 11:1 Journal of Statistical Software.

On the eMac: I tried to install Xgobi but could not. I printed an article Cook, Dianne. "Calibrate Your Eyes to Recognize High-Dimensional Shapes from Their Low-Dimensional Projections" (1997) 2:6 Journal of Statistical Software. I did some web page graphics alignments and table formating using dreamweaver and completed more paid web work this way.

I am just doing my monthly backs ups. I actually burned a CD of the major folders on the desktop of my eMac this time. Soon I will print hard copies of blogs and burn a CD of my laptop's folders.