Networking a virtual PC

I was able to network my virtual win 2K PC on my eMac with my laptop. I am doing this to transfer the Vista ISO image to my macbook for burning onto DVD.

Using Fink Commander and trying to install gimp and also KDE.

While trying to install gimp and gaim using fink commander I got X11 windows working on the Macbook. Inspired by this I am trying to install KDE on the Macbook. But I am having problems.

I am also downloading Vista business edition for my eMac. I will run this windows version in Virtual PC.

Working with dreamweaver on the youphone.ca web site index page

I added a small logo to this index page and started entering the footer information. This page will become the template for the other pages on the web site.

Social networking web site use today

I used Linkedin today and linkedin with someone new whom I don't know. He picked me based on some comments I made about wall mart. I also created an account for our band at myspace.

I have registered a new domain and have started to work on a web site for it.

I registered www.youphone.ca inspired by cyberpsych and the PDA guy in their iPhone podcast. Apple computers have already managed to buy www.iPhone.org to point to apple.com.

I used dreamweaver to start to design a web site for my new domain. Right now www.youphone.ca points to my radical www.cyborgcitzen.org web site. I had also thought of buying the French translation www.vousphonez.ca but held off on this for now. I am becoming more of a bilingual web master these days and have at least one bilingual web site I publish.

I am now using Firefox more often.

I have started to use FireFox more often. It is a very good web browser and seems to perform better than Safari.

Latest tech purchase: a 17 inch widescreen monitor.

I purchased a 17" widescreen monitor that also has a TV tuner. So now I can watch TV at my desk. This monitor has a small desktop footprint. It is also looks great and is a Sony MFM-HT75W. It has all the monitor connections it needs like VGA, S-video and DVI. It also has component, coaxial and RCA, TV inputs. The only connection in modern TV connectors that it is missing is HDMI. But I could do HDMI via the DVI with an adapter. So some of those cables I bought for the projector are now helping me hook up this new small HDTV/monitor. It works with my Macbook.

Adding titles to posts on this blog for better rss feeds on my screen saver.

I added a title field to the post editor on this blog. I also have this on my other blogger blogs. This allows a better view when I use the RSS screen saver in Mac OS 10.4. This helps me proof read the beginning of blog posts without having to use my hands. I can watch the posts float by on the screen saver. But without a title field this blog was problematic on the screen saver. This is finally fixed.

I am thinking of buying a cheap work bench for my office.

I am deleting over 1,200,000 files on my eMac2. It has taken about 100,000 files / day to secure delete these files.

With my Garmin foretrex 101 GPS unit I have collected 12 waypoints. This morning I edited the numbered waypoints to names and chose appropriate symbols for each waypoint.

I have thought of having a blackboard for second life that could be used to write LaTeX. I would then sell this Blackboard and market it in Second Life. I posted this goal on the second life blog under the open source announcement on that blog. Because most of the software involved would be open source I would also need to give the Blackboard away for free at the same time.

A fellow has commented on my blog about a technique for using LaTeX on blogger. I may spend some time implementing this solution this morning.

Here is a link to his original post LaTeX on blogger http://servalx02.blogspot.com/2007/01/latex-on-blogger.htmland the same post I think in French LaTeX dans blogger at http://wolverine-mathematic.blogspot.com/2007/01/latex-dans-blogger.html.

I accidentally flagged his blog as objectable content because I forgot what flagging meant on the blog pages at blogger. I meant to add it to a blogger bookmarks system which of course does not exist. I hereby appologize to this blogger user.

I am setting aside this evening for computing. This reminds me I should phone someone and help her with computing tonight. I just called and she is tired tonight, so this help will wait until tomorrow or Sunday.

My office redesign continues. I am using the new computer desk and one of two desks that are being taken out of my office is now out of the office and waiting for a friend to pick it up for her use. The other desk has still not been moved.

The office will possibly get a new TV that will also function as a second computer monitor.

I copied the user folder from my old eMac to another location on a different external hard drive and also to the computers folder in the documents folder on the new eMac. So I now have three copies of this user folder in back up. I also copied the entire computers folder to the new LaCie hard drive. I believe I also have burned this computers folder to DVD in the past so many files in this folder of older computer files are well backed up.

I also used the LaCie back up software to again back up the user folder on the new eMac, eMac2. But I can not yet make multiple copies of this user folder but only have enough space for one copy at a time.

I helped my neighbour again on Sunday morning. I copied files from her old computer running Win95. I copied about 12 MB of files using 9 floppies. These files were from her volunteer work and the volunteer work of a deceased person. I now need to bring my USB floppy drive over to her place and copy these floppies to the thinkpad. She has agreed to buy the Thinkpad and started to pay for it yesterday.

I did go ahead with getting a GPS unit.

The IBM Thinkpad has been loaned to a neighbour. She did not have a computer so I loaned her my Thinkpad. I swapped out my Linux hard drive and put in the original 20 GB drive with Windows XP. I installed Office 97 and Publisher 97 on the computer.

Annual Backups continue

I just now copied the Desktop and the Documents folders to one of the new LaCie hard drives. I did yesterday burn three DVD's with the documents folder minus movies and the computer(s) folder. The computers folder contains all the old files from previous computers.

I am not buying the projector after all. I need to stop all this spending on computer parts and debiting at 28% interest. I was so prepared with cables and researching adapters and already having the portable screen. But the projector is so expensive I would rather buy a gas powered vehicle or fix up my bicycle with fenders, racks and a GPS.

Annual backups

I am just backing up the eMac to multiple locations but mainly today I am backing up the documents folder to three copies of DVD's.

I was lucky or again predicted that the projectors would be on sale at the electronics store. I am having to borrow to buy this item and the money won't be ready until Thursday or Friday. I am now just hoping the store does not run out of projectors. The deal is a 200$ less price and a bonus 72 inch pull down screen. Home movies here we come. Of course, at the cost of new debit.

I backed up my two present macs to the new LaCie hard drives using the LaCie back up software. I also copied files of the failing Iomega firewire drive to the new drives. I also double backed up the old user account from the old eMac which I now call eMac 1.

I used stfp and vi on my eMac to update a web page. I had few issues and everything went well and took less than a hour.

I am developing a positive on-line relation with another computer scientist in Second Life and she has shown me the ICT library where I finally got a free URL launch script. She also stopped me from shopping in Second Life and it is a non sexual reationship. So good clean fun is happening in Second Life. So now I will add this URL launch script to the computers I buy for my virtual offices. I also cashed in Linden dollars to help pay for my account fees. Thus at the moment I have lowered my Second Life costs. I still don't make sales or have a job in Second Life but I am really enjoying the design of my offices and some seemingly random visitors have said the place looks cool. "Cool costs me money? as the IBM TV add goes but it is also fun to build this on-line office.

I really know what's going on at computer stores these days. I rightly predicted or waited for sales of LaCie 250 GB hard drives and thus we got me two for christmas. I also managed to put away until January a Linksys USB hard drive Lan device at another store now that these are coming off the market and have dropped 30 dollars in price. Thus the two hard drives will be network accessible. I am using a lot of space now on my present hard drives with movies and also multiple computer backups. Also one drive is about to fail and gives me slow operation on my eMac when the drive is connected.

I did internet computing for the last few hours. Including joining U Tube. I converted some videos and updated our iPods. My brother has launched a small graphics site here (http://www.timusk.com/desktop/).

I uploaded a home weather video to UTube today. It should be here.

I installed Brother printer drivers for my MFC420CN on my Linux laptop. I also bought yet another printer this time for its duplex printing abilities.

The eMac is ready to go. I have set it up with Mac OS X 10.3 and have installed X code and X11.

I am just doing a regular back up for my mail folder on my main master computer my new eMac. I am thinking of getting a Mac Pro machine but this would be about a 5,000 dollar investment including monitors and hard drives.

I first backed up the user on the eMac and then reinstalled the original MacOS X 10.2 software. Then I upgraded to Panther Mac OS X 10.3. I then installed X Code and X11. This computer is now ready for my friend to take home. She is presently the volunteer web mistress for the Ottawa Canada Linux Users Group. I hold a sort of membership in this group.

I was given a Second Life script that launches a web browser and opens a URL. I want to use a few of these scripts in objects in my Second Life design offices.

I upgraded BootCamp drivers on my Macbook a week ago. This means I can now use my iSight and my microphone on my Macbook while using WinXP.

I am giving away my older eMac to a young web designer. I decided I do not need to use my older eMac and will give it away to an old friend who is actually a young web design student.

I used a global find and replace in Dreamweaver to finally change my timusk@magi.com email address on all my personal home page site pages to the correct and permanent National Capital Freenet email address. I do not like changing email addresses because of this web site email links issue.

I paid for a license for documents to go version 9 yesterday morning and this is now functioning on my Palm Treo 600. I have not been using my Palm much as Palm but it is now my main cell phone too. I had some trouble with the filing of contacts on the Palm being all wrong and I am pain stakingly refiling everyone.

I have been using Second Life(SL) successfully quite a bit for the past few weeks. I have tonight been pointed to GNU sites in SL.

I have had connection problems with my network printer on both the Macbook from the beginning and the now the eMac recently. I have been using the new Canon IP90 for most of my printing in the last few weeks. I am giving my mother my Epson 820 printer. I will only have one Epson printer left my 440 with its parallel port connection.

I am making some classical page of links pages for one of my web master sites.

I did some video making and made a family film and then made three copies of a DVD movie which was basically only raw footage of a family reunion. I also printed some family pictures.

Back ups

I was successful at burning a DVD of my email. I now have most of ten years or more of email backed up to 1 DVD disk. I figure before my email back up size becomes bigger than a DVD I will be burning larger dvd's of 8 GB size. I am not sure if my present computers can already do this. I will now try to import all this email into my Macbook mail but not right away.

My computers are working fine. I have learned how to keep my Debian computer updated. I updated windows XP on my Macbook. I also installed the IP90 printer on the windows side of the Macbook. I also hotsynced the palm on the windows computer side of the Macbook thereby installing some medical palm applications but that is not completed. I paid for these medical softwares. I also downloaded a trial version of Documents To Go version 9 and have it working on my Palm Treo 600 now. I took some photos with the Treo of a union picket I attended.

I also made a profile picture with the Second Life viewer camera, of my Second Life avatar and wrote a little blurb for my avatar. I had used Second Life almost every day this past week as I build the web design offices in world and met people in world and through email.

Backups

I am going to back up my mac computers today and start a DVD disk back up process as well as the usual hard drive back up.

Data and TV projectors are indeed coming down in price. I will be able to buy one for Christmas I hope. Already a good quality model that functions for my plans is only 900$, down below 1000$. Speaking of shopping I am thinking of buying an Itronix T5200 for about 60$ plus shipping costs of about 50$. But really I don't have 110$ to spare right now I am still paying for my new TV, the printer, and an iPod for my wife.

I now have a Canon IP 90 but have not used it much yet. It prints perfect photos. I really should buy some more ink for it though and some more photo paper. I should also set it up for use with the WinXP side of this Macbook.

I have been using Dreamweaver regularly now. I did some web mastering this week including using Moving Type at Yahoo for paid work. I have been paid for about 13 hours work on my new web master contract. I am preparing to bill for another ten hours. I also have some work on an older web master contract that must be done. I will get to that this weekend.

I installed a trial copy of Documents To Go version 9 for the Macintosh. This is actually a palm application that allows creation, viewing and use of Microsoft doc, exl, and pps files on the palm. I use the docs feature for keeping minutes at various community group meetings and union meetings. I have not used the Treo that much as a palm although I did some calendar updating, contacts updating, and have also installed all my purchased ebooks and also free ebooks. I have only purchased about three ebooks for the Palm and one was Count Zero by William Gibson. I have though been using the Treo quite regularly as a cell phone. I learned some thing this morning from the palm web site about setting the incoming call sounds. I only really use my cell phone for incoming calls from my wife and in one of my volunteer roles.

Playing Second Life is inspiring

I did some on-line design in Second Life. Really what I did was pay a designer and worked with him to create my SL web design offices. He sold me some desks and then build some cubicle dividers and shelfs. My offices are in Sociaria if you need to look me up and my on-line name is Peter Korgstad. The office is Crystal Computing Web Design. The designer's studio was quite inspiring and had music video screens which I could watch and also a Reuters news feed which always crashed my SL game when I tried to work it. I linked my RL identity with my Second Life identity as I am doing here. This means I am not that worried about on-line privacy. I worry more about the spam from my recent joining of MySpace more than SL. I am now going to test view my new web design offices on my LCD TV.

We bought my wife an iPod movie. I had trouble with it because I had selected not to be automatically synced and now the iPod does not show up in the main panel of iTunes but only in the left hand devices list. This means I can not delete from it and also I need to add songs manually.

I bought it an Otter iPod case and at first thought I had the wrong case but after viewing the Otter cases web site I found out the case would fit the iPod movie. So now my wife"s iPod has some home movies, some rock songs, and a large collection of Beethoven and Mozart music ready to go in a protective case.

As an after thought I think I will connect the iPod movie to this Macbook and see if I can fix the problem with the iPod panel.

Second after thought, I am so dumb as are the apple support people I called. The panel needed to be scrolled down and then the iPod needed to be registered and then it was ready to go. So everything is ok now.

I now have a Palm Treo 600. With this I have so far been successful in getting the calendar, contacts, to do list and memos onto the Treo from the Tungsten W. I have also installed Astro Info, Palm Reader, InMeeting, and Adode Reader for the Palm. I have also added a number of Palm Reader files. I still need to add Adobe pdf files. I have not been able to access the backed up InMeeting files. I also need to buy a copy of Documents to Go for this Palm. I should also install Avante Go and configure it for this new Palm handheld computer. I have a complementary copy of an MP3 player to still download and install from Palm. I have service for this palm now as my main cell phone and mobile internet. I have closed my wireless account with the other Tungsten W service. Yesterday I bought a 1 GB SD card for this palm at a cost of 30$ plus tax.

This reminds me I really should do some work adding fellow and sister workers to my contacts list and also fellow and sister volunteers.

I got a dot mac account because FutureShop had a discounted copy of dot mac for sale. I am going to use this dot mac to synchronize my two macs.

I copied my mail folder on my eMac to an external hard drive. I copied the documents folder a few days ago. I also copied the documents folder and sites folder on my Macbook to another external drive.

I bought a Canon IP 90 printer and it is worth the money just to print the one photo I have printed of my daughter and I. I also bought a smalled Targus laptop bag to carry this portable printer. I am visioning on the road warrior computer operator.

I tried to make a script in Second Life that would start a web browser and go to my cyborg citizen web site. I was able to debug the script and get it to compile but it did not work when attached to an object. Maybe it was not attached properly.

I was set to buy a Xybernaut MA V wearable computer for 700$. But the seller on ebay did not give me thier name or address and the computer was being sold as is. I just can not afford 700$ on such a deal.

I am also trying now to give away my eMac to a young digital artist.

Success with my trash

I was able to finally clear my trash on my eMac. I still have a number of folders with encrypted files that need deleting but the trash itself is now empty.

My new TV does display my laptops just fine as a monitor. It works with both the Macbook and the IBM Linux Thinkpad. I want to try it out for chatting with Gaim on the Thinkpad. I did test iTunes with sound using the speakers on the TV and the stereo at the same time. I also had the visualizer turned on on iTunes.

My back up processes are almost complete for another month. I am just waiting for the trash to empty old copies of email folders that were rotated out of the back up hard drives. Another month is beginning.

I did in fact get a Drapper 42 inch portable projector screen and in the end after shipping and customs and brokerage fees it cost abot 80$. The list price is almost 500$.

I also bought a new LCD TV and upconverting DVD player. I have the DVD player home now but am waiting to have the LCD TV delivered still. I bought an HDMI cable from the local computer store www.pccyber.com. They have good prices and are close by and have some Mac support.

I am doing my end of the month back up processes.

I won the portable projector screen for about 55$ CND. As well I note that HDTV projectors are coming down in price. I might wait another full month to buy one of these.

I sold my old IBM PC 325 server for 20$. The computer case is still not sold.

I am trying to sell off my IBM PC 325 server for 20$. I am also trying to sell a computer case for 20$.

I am going ahead with getting a projector screen. I am going to get either a portable one with carrying case or just a portable one. This should cost no more than 80$. I am trying to win and buy one of these on ebay. I will use this at home usually for watching high definition TV and on the road as needed for the laptop.

I am burning three back up DVD's of the Mac Book documents folder from July 1st, 2006. I copied this folder to my eMac from my firewire drive. I will then delete the folder from my firewire drive at the end of September, October 1st. I will also power up my iPod this morning. I will also delete the back up of my eMac music folder which is on the firewire drive and then make a another back up. I don't need to be all that secure with my music folder back up. I certainly don't need to obssess about it. For other IT projects at home right now I am still emptying the trash on my eMac.

I am able to see a USB drive on my Linux laptop. This means I can now share files and back up my Linux laptop.

I am considering purchasing a portable printer and getting a bluetooth option for it. I have bluetooth on my Mac Book and might also get it for my Thinkpad. I might also get a bluetooth module for my eMac. Speaking of the eMac I have been thinking of getting an Airport Express card where I can play my iTunes on my stereo. But I have a docking port for the iPod and have it connected to my living room stereo so can already play my iTunes on my stereo. As I move to the office and out of my living room with my computers I might also get a stereo for the office although I don't really need this and in fact have Mozart playing on the eMac in the office just fine at the moment. In terms of the printer I might prefer to get a laser printer that can print on both sides. These I think are on sale at the moment too at one shop.

I am meeting one of my web mastering clients later today at a coffee shop. I want to show him the web site and get his content. He has been slow to provide it. I will bring my Macbook to the meeting. I will have dreamweaver to show him the site but will also try for internet access at this trendy coffee shop.

My windows 2K disk is no good. I might request a mailed copy of simply abandon trying to install Win2K on the compaq.

I decided to install Win2K on my Compaq laptop. I am doing this now with an academic copy of Win2k from my new school.

The canon IP90 went down 100$ in price. I may now be able to buy it but I just don't have the money yet.

The two peripheral devices I may buy this week are a Canon I90 portable printer and/or a Optera portable data projector. I may also buy a high definition TV but would only buy one with a VGA connection built in.

There are still no drivers for the M-Audio Quattro pro USB music interface to connect to my Macbook. I looked briefly at Berhinger firewire interfaces but I think they also do not support Intel macs. Other more recent M-Audio interfaces do support Intel macs.

I updated the system software on my Portable Sony Playstation to OS 2.8 now. This is still probably my most portable wireless Internet device. I am paying for wireless access in coffee shops but have not used this service yet.

I taught myself some more LaTeX coding so I could do some school work. I actually have a membership in TUGS for this year. I use TeXShop on my mac computers to do this work. I was able to type set my entire piece of school work that is due this week. I use google to find commands and ways to doing things in LaTeX.

I downloaded one copy of Microsoft Vista RC1 for myself as a test. I then helped a friend by downloading him a copy. These copies will expire in June 2007. I will burn a DVD of his copy and he will install it on his home computer which is actually my old IBM Intellistation.

I am calibrating my Macbook battery at the moment. I will now need to leave this Macbook turned off or asleep for five hours or more.

I purchased and installed an educational copy of Dreamweaver 8. I installed Deamweaver onto my Macbook. I use this software for my web mastering work.

I got past the X windows configuration script now with my Debian install. I am installing packages from both ftp and also DVD's.

With the Deban install proceeding on my Thinkpad I am blogging on my Macbook. I actually was able to install kernal image 2.6.8-2 686 on the Thinkpad. I am learning.

I am reinstalling Debian Linux with a 2.6 kernal in expert mode on my IBM R31 Thinkpad. I will report progress here in an hour or two.

The Macboook did burn a DVD back up of itself. I copied and pasted the Documents, Desktop, Mail and Mail Downloads, and also the Sites folders on to a DVD. I did not test the DVD to see if the files were there. I put the DVD away and it will be the end of August back up source for the Macbook.

I am going to burn my first data back up DVD on my new Macbook. I will report my progress here.

Both keyboard covers arrived Friday. I have been testing the Macbook keyboard cover for about two hours now off and on. It seems to work well. It is like touching medical laytex gloves or condoms. For the newer eMac the keyboard cover also fits perfectly so his time I bought the right cover for this model of Mac USB keyboard. I did clean the older actually 8 month old keyboard before putting the cover on. I have been using it also this morning after work. I get in from my new job these days at 11:00 PM.

The eMac trash clearing out process is continuing. It takes me about ten minutes to prepare one folder for complete trashing.

The trick to help speed up the emptying of encrypted files on my eMac works. I spent about 2 hours doing this yesterday morning after work. I only spent about ten minutes doing this this morning. Not that the process speeded up that much that is just the time I spent on it. But the number of clicks has been reduced drastically. I can see the end in sight now for cleaning up the trash. In fact, I am working more on blogs this morning. I also doing on-line shopping.

I also just won on ebay a docking port for my new used Thinkpad. I paid 1 cent for this and 17 dollars shipping. Tomorrow is pay day and I have bought two iSkin keyboard covers which should be here by next week if not Friday this week.

One is for the Macbook as they now have designed a cover for that keyboard. I was waiting for them to do this. I also got a keyboard cover for my eMac. Last time I tried to get a keyboard cover for my new eMac's keyboard I bought the wrong iSkin keyboard cover. This wrong cover was for the old style eMac keyboard. My old style eMac keyboard is very dirty and was no longer in use. I had replaced the keyboard last year. So I brought out the old keyboard and put the cover on it without cleaning the old keyboard. Oh well three keyboard covers now with costs about 100$. I also have a Neo case from iSkin for my PSP now.

I got the paste more than 10 files into a folder for my trick with getinfo unlock to work. I simply did it outside the trash folder. I moved the old documents folders into a folder outside the trash and then did the trick and then moved the documents folder back to the trash. I have done one folder now and need to do about 8 more. The trash emptying is progressing.

The trick did not work I can not paste into a trash folder.

I have a new trick. When doing unlocking of less than 10 or so files with the file>getinfo command each files opens seperately in get info windows. This then takes about 3 clicks per file to unlock. When using get info on more than ten files one get info window opens and it takes only one or two click to unlock all the files at once. Therefore to exploit this, I am going to copy ten files from some where in my documents folder and paste them into each folder where I need to unlock files then do a get info and thus need only one or two clicks per folder to unlock. The newly copied files will delete anyways and they don't need to be anything special.

I did some backups of the Macbook the other day. I copied the documents, desktop, and DreamWeaver Sites folders to my Firewire 120 GB Iomega drive. The Iomega stock price has been rising this past week. I also copied the Sites folder to a Zip 250 MB disk.

Speaking of backups I am have almost unlocked all the locked folders in the present eMac2 documents folder. I now only need to unlock all the files still in the trash and this project wil be completed. I can then run a smoother documents back up process.

I used Bluefish on the linux laptop to start an R file. I did not write very much of it. I will read some probability now and also some C++.

I started the Bluefish code editor and set it to an R document and started a document. I have only written comments so far in this R code document.

I got Debian Linux 3.1 r2 installed using DVD's and have a perfect desktop and listened to a CD for the first time on a Linux machine. the video driver for the Intel 810 chip also works for th 830 chip in the Thinkpad and also provides a sound system driver. I have been putting my Linux laptop to use for chatting at yahoo and also making web pages.

I could not yet mount a USB key or Pocket zip drive.

I got in from work and booted up my Macbook laptop computer. I was testing at first if iWeb could be used in my new web master project. The new web site I am publisher of is here. www.wellness-project.org. I am designing some templates for this web site project and did this on my Linux laptop a couple of hours after getting home.

I did some LaTeX learning and typesetting after I figured iWeb would not be good enough for the web site project. On the eMac I copied and pasted into TeXShop an old Open Office file made on my old Thinkpad and presently stored on my eMac. I then opened it using the local network between my machines in TeXShop on my Macbook. The file is a list of all the exercises and solutions I have done from the textbook for my introduction to probability course I studied in 1999. I created this file in 2003 to really learn probability and possibly help me repeat the course with better marks. As I have set the goal of having worked through and read the second chapter of two probability books by Sunday next weekend, I thought I should get working on this study as I have done nothing other than pull the books out of their shelves to date. After opening the file as a tex file I began to write proper LaTeX code for the content. I did figure out an elegant solution to equation numbering using the exercise numbering for the answers as equation numbering. I did not really do any solutions though I just converted what I had done in 2003 to laTeX.

I spent about two hours today cleaning up the trash on my eMac desktop. The problem is that some old files have been encrypted and then can not be deleted without first unlocking which takes a few mice clicks typically for each file or folder. The real problem is that I have about twenty copies of rotating monthly or weekly back ups still in the trash with these encrypted files still there. It is pain staking manual process but I am not sure how to unlock on the command line or with a script. I will send at least another two hours today doing this clean up.

Inspired by my Debian downloads and disk making I bought a used refurbished Thinkpad R31. This older laptop probably only has a celeron or Pentium III processor. I don't know yet. It does have a 1 Ghz processor, I know that. I don't have the laptop yet and don't expect to have it until next weekend. Next weekend I have some more teaching assistant work to do. So I will spend time between installing Debian and teaching assistant marking. The Thinkpad comes with a 20 GB hard drive with Windows XP Home edition, which I will immediately replace with a new 60GB drive I have for my Linux install. One really good feature of this particular Thinkpad is its optical drive which is a combo CDRW and DVD ROM drive. This means I can burn CD's in Linux now. This machine will not have Windows installed when I use it. But when it is time to sell this laptop I will simply reinstall the original 20 GB drive with Windows XP home and can then give or sell this Thinkpad to someone who needs a Windows machine.

I have 1 copy of all 16 CD's that contain Debian 3.1 revision 2 plus updates. I also will make 5 business card install disks after I buy five business card blank CD's. I will also download and make a copy of this revisions DVD's. I will use bittorrent and start the download this morning and check the timing of this bit torrent download.

The gendered digital divide really hits home.

From being told I was smart when a kid to the present day the gendered digital divide is so real I can not ignore this. I have been reading a book about this and here is the biliographical cite:

Cooper, Joel, & Weaver, Kimberlee D. Gender and Computers: Understanding the Digital Divide (Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003).

This book through a great number of studies of students in classroom experiments to test gendered differences in computing use as these fit various psychological factors, studies the gendered divide in computing use. While may be success with computers is too simplified in this book and certainly this divide is lessing these days, it is certainly a key feature of my own experience with computing.

I reviewed the first chapter of a school textbook on Java programming for beginning programmers.

I had read this book, or at least the first two chapters in May 2002. I was trying out a first year course in Java programming that spring. I withdrew from the course and did not complete the course. Instead in the summer term that year I studied wrongful convictions in an advanced sociology course in criminology. I withdrew because I was failing to complete the first programming assignment properly.

Tonight, I read quickly the first chapter by scanning for keywords and reviewing. In fact, the first three chapters of this book are basic programming which I have known from the middle 1970's.

There is even some connecting in the book of objects and methods with variables and functions; in other words, there are connections made between the procedural programming I was taught in the 1970's and 1980's, with the object oriented programming students are taught these days and in this book.

Mostly I reviewed in chapter 1 the JAVA specific learning that I have not really used yet. But much of this applies to programming in SAS or XML, as well as it applies in Java. In particular, the naming rules for variables or name space concepts are almost the same in all three languages.

Here is the bibliographic cite for this first year JAVA programming book:

Savitch, Walter. Java: An Introduction to Computer Science & Programming (Upper Saddle River: N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1999).

This book covers basic programming with JAVA. I reviewed the first chapter tonight and will review chapter two soon. Then I have ten more chapters to read. I will practice writing JAVA with the Code Warrior software. I found out tonight there is also a copy of Code Warrior for the Mac on the book's CD but none of my present Macs have an older copy of Mac OS to run this no doubt.

I managed to install Debian 3.1 revision 2 and am now making more CD's from that revision so I can install anything from the archive by CD. I still do not have a PCMCIA working socket so can not ethernet on this laptop. I do have X windows, a Gnome desktop and the Debian drop down menu. Last time I installed Debian 3.1 on this laptop I did not have the Debian drop down menu and that made it difficult to access a number of useful programs. This laptop is very slow. I now must consider buying a battery for this laptop which would cost about 100$ or spending about 500$ to get a used Thinkpad from IBM for a Debian laptop. The first option costs a lot less.

The installing proccess for Linux is working ok. I may have made one mistake on the video RAM memory selection. I should be able to test it out later today. I also successfully install the Code Warrior Lite software on the PC side of the Macbook and programs to use with the Java textbook. I may start reading this textbook and working the programs also later today.

I have an old Penitum 1 computer. I was given this for free last winter. I tried it to install Debian 3.0 and had it working. But the command line on that version of Debian did not by default have an edit menu. I need to be able to copy and paste into the command line so need an edit menu on the command line. So I am trying to install the next version of Debian 3.1 and by now that is at 3.1 revision 2. I am having some trouble with installing this from CD. I was not able to keep the PCMCIA system working after the base install. I may use this as a non-networked machine. So that is one study project I am doing today.

I may also try to install some Java tools on my Macbook on the windows side. These tools would be from a first year university Java programming course textbook. I would be expected to know this textbook in my systems science program this coming year. I would hope to work through this book by the end of August.

I have to work my way through a textbook on Java programming in one month. I will use the PC side of the Macbook to teach myself Java programming. I will need this in a course this fall. I suspect I will be assigned programming assignments.

I tried out Adaware for the PC side of the Macbook. I had spyware on the PC side. I also tried Macscan on the eMac. I did not have spyware on the eMac.

I am just making back ups of the documents folder and mail folder on my eMac2. I have to empty the trash of old backs up to do this first. I am also backing up the Mail Downloads folder this time. I had been meaning to make a DVD of the Mail and Mail Downloads folders but had some problems doing this. I should also make some hard copy back ups of my blogs but I am trying to cut down on the amount of paper I use and keep so may not do this.