Pretty quiet day. Biked to lauperr‘s and spent most of the day there which was nice and relaxing.
Got home and took some paracetamol ‘caus I had a headache and I’m sure I’m catching lauperr‘s cold just in time for Christmas. She *made* me kiss her damn it! 😛
Laura was in a shockingly cheerful mood after and gave me a ring again. I was highly amused by her stories of the customers at Rainbow, then she seemed perfectly happy listening to me singing along to songs over the phone 😀 Wuv you sweetie.
Reubs wants me to wipe Windows XP off his computer and install Linux… !!! He’s fed up of getting virus’. I did suggest he went for a dual boot to start off with as he might get frustrated at first, but he’s insiting he wants rid of Windows completely 😀 I’m downloading the latest version of Knoppix, but I’m reluctant to do an HD-install because it’s a bit nasty. I’d really like to install Debian but Knoppix comes with a reasonably up to date kernel and all the applications he could want. It’s also a hundred times easier to install than Debian, and I’d like him to be able to install it himself (and re-install when he breaks it). OK so there’s the myth about a chicken(?) being able to install Debian… but, well Reubs is not a chicken. He has no feathers, is considerably larger and is more likely to try and make intelligent decisions and break something! I do have the SuSE disc sitting here but I don’t fancy that much. I also have Fedora Core 1.0 which is a tempting option… but I don’t think I’ll go for that either.
Downloaded Mozilla Thunderbird today to go with Firebird. I’m not sure why Mozilla’s products are splitting off into different projects like this, but I’m definately glad they are because both are excellent. I’ve also heard news about Lindows funding the development of the Mozilla Composor to make it a serious alternative to Front Page or Dreamweaver in the propriatory world. Well it has a long way to go, but the best of luck to them. I’ve been trying to say there’s a gap in the WYSIWYG HTML editor market in Linux for a long time, but every time I say it I just get flamed and have vim shoved up my rear end. I wish they’d have a split screen mode instead of separating WYSIWYG and source views by tabs in Mozilla Composor – if they do I’ll stop trying to help the Quanta Plus development and support them instead. Is it just me who cringes when I hear that Lindows is funding something? Not sure why.
After reading some more of Linux Format, it seems that there isn’t a particularly brilliant sequencer for Linux yet either. What I’d really like is something like Steinberg’s Cubase, but I can’t see that happening in the near future. Still, I seem to be booting back into Windows much less recently. I think the only things left that I use Windows for are my TV card which I just don’t have the time to fiddle with in Linux, sometimes Dreamweaver but not much any more, today I used Flash in Windows because I needed fonts that weren’t there when running under Wine and of course my USB hard disk – but I’m sure I can get that up and running with a bit of effort.
It’s christmas eve tomorrow and I still haven’t wrapped anybody’s presents! I need to get up early and do that, so good night to you all my blogging friends and casual observers… (there aren’t any, are there?).