Welcome to the new year!!!
January 18th, 2009 by WaltLet’s see… I am writing this 18 full days into 2009 and wondering when I will be ready for 2008!
The water heater project is done and so far so good as to being leak free. The old one is still sitting out on the deck (anybody want a slightly rusted out very leaky hot water heater? LOL).
- The Final Product
(Just found a WordPress bug… I can’t center both the picture and caption it seems)
As to my computer hobby; the more I use Vista, the more I want to get rid of it and put Linux on the main computers!!! I installed Sun’s VirtualBox virtual machine the other night and am running SimplyMEPIS and Mint in a virtual machine on Vista. Of course I have a desktop and a laptop running Ubuntu and Mint, but the virtual machine lets me kick the tires of a new distro without having to burn a CD or DVD for a Live CD! You can download an iso (image file) and VirtualBox can boot that just like it is right on your hard drive.
I got a friend started with Mint operating as a guest in VirtualBox on his computer and am anxious for him to say he wants it actually installed directly on his hard drive. This way he gets to kick the tires without having to repartition his hard drive and undoing it all if he doesn’t like it.
I discovered it is a good way to play under the hood with a distro and if I break something, I can revert to a previous snapshot.
A second post will address issues I’ve been reading lately by some mighty clueless people who think they don’t like Linux because their information is waaaaaay out of date!
