It is like the teenage view of popularity in my mind. My mind is wrong but here is the thought: Computer work became popular. I don't want to work in something popular. I used to work in computers when they were not popular. Now the right thing to say: I resent that others earn money working with computers, while I have not made a lot of money doing this. But that is changing I am working in computers now. Related to this I bought a cheap copy of Cyberselfish yesterday. It cost 3.99 CND.

I have four iso images downloaded now for Debian 3.0 r2 dated end of 2003. I want to volunteer on the Debian project.

I have volunteered on the Open Office project by demonstrating Open Office use at Open Source Weekend this past march.

I will need to be using ssh for some web master work this spring but am thinking and considering whether I want to do this volunteer gig.

I have the first four debian 3 r2 iso images downloaded now.

I tried to fix my Fedora by reinstalling from CD. I let it find the previous install but no luck with fixing it. I seem to have x problems but the command line is fine.

I downloaded Debian 3.0 r2 disks 1 & 2 since yesterday.

I am presently downloading the iso image for the debian 3.0 r2 disk 1 on my WinXP laptop.

I may buy some blank CD's and try to burn the latest Debian version. I have Debian 3 but before the security flaw was found last fall. This would be downloaded and burned on the WinXP laptop and would be my first attempt at making ISO CD's on this laptop.

Today I need to print some agenda's for a union meeting.

I am just doing routine computer tasks these past two days. I took back the C++ learning book to the library.

I gave up on the Duron box again. I am now starting my research on the TP 360SC.

I am going to try to adjust the X windows on the Turbo Linux setting the monitor to a G70. I am also going to set a low colour resolution.

I am also going to do some research this morning to get the Thinkpad 360SC networked. I got the Thinkpad 360SC a used 16MB memory upgrade and will be attempting to install Debian 3.0 later this month.

I am starting another school course so my time availabel to work on computer work will be limited. I will of course be using my TP T30 quite a bit for school work along with my two Epson printers. I need to get another black ink cartridge for my Epson 700.

I have retreated to my laptop for now. I don't want to get very frustrated at the moment. I found out I did not do very well on my legal issues in ecommerce course. I am just relaxing writing my blogs this morning.

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.