Nov 07 2006
It’s Not Easy Being Geek(y)
Last month I bought a new Dell Laptop. I planned to buy a new desktop computer as a Holiday gift to myself, but last week I priced one and I decided to buy it now. It’s in production and hopefully it’s shipping today so that I will get it on Thursday and have a long weekend to play with it.
In preparation for the new computer I rearranged my office area. My old cat (she’ll be 20 soon!) needs to live off the floor because the other cats (2 boys) annoy her. Her bed used to be on my desk, but I moved it over to an old printer stand so that I had more room on the desk for my new 19″ Flat Panel monitor 
I also needed to prepare the old laptop, and eventually the old desktop, so that I can sell them. Last year I had a flood in my house from hurricane Wilma and I lost a bunch of stuff. Apparently my old WinXP disks and all the Gateway restore disks were among the casualties because I couldn’t find any of them. I consulted the IT guy at work and he convinced me to reformat the computers using Linux and other Open Source applications. He also turned me on to a program to wipe my disk. So today I wiped the old laptop and installed Linux and the other applications using Fedora Core 5.
The picture above shows what my office looked like this afternoon: (click on the image to see a larger view with notes)
