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Hunting mosquitoes and Linux

May 16, 2007

A lovely evening, cool and clear with the scent of spring in the air.  Perfect for working out in the back yard!  And the mosquitoes thought so, too.

Or not, as West Nile virus has come to the county early this year along with hoards of thirsty mosquitoes.  I hope I have some immunity to WNV after that thing a few years ago when the whole town was full of dead birds from it, and I got inexplicably soooo sick… Man, that was awful.  Which naturally fills my head with thoughts of revenge, Monty Python style!

In other news, I just got done using SUSE for a month, so I installed Ubuntu 7.04 on my laptop today.  So far, so good.  It picked up the wireless with no troubles, and seems to be working without a glitch.  Only problem I’ve encountered is some of the program icons are nowhere to be found.  For example, to start OpenOffice Draw, you type in oodraw in a command window… no icon for it.  I much prefer OpenOffice Draw to MS Publisher, to the extent that I even use it on Windows machines… but on Linux it seems to run more smoothly.

I will likely be trying to figure out how to get XnView for Windows to run in Linux, along with Notepad++ … two applications I don’t like to live without.

When I write my Linux review (along the lines of the Mac OS review I did earlier) I will discuss both SUSE and Ubuntu.

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  1. Abhilasha Sharma
    May 21, 2007 at 17:00 | #1

    Hahahaha

    Hunting mosquitoes….

    May be for the mosquitoes from my home town ….we usually joked that they were big enough to start stealing babies and asking for random….

  2. February 17, 2008 at 21:46 | #2

    nasty

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