1. Updated http://hickeyhoo.net . This looks about the same as it did before, but I rebuilt it using Drupal. Drupal is an opensource content management application that does alot of the organizational grunt work. It’s a learning process for me, and I’m just getting started. Thought I’d mention it because the site is a good road map to our various family sites. Nobody really cares about Drupal.
2. I came across UNR Ubuntu distribution customized for netbook computers (UNR = Ubuntu Netbook Remix). I’m using it now, and I like it. It is really fast running on a full notebook, and the user interface is very attractive and intuitive. The distribution installs from a bootable, 1GB thumb drive, and you can run (like a live CD) without installing it on the hard drive. My installation is on a 2.5GB partition. The small partition size provides minimal user storage, but it gives me a true netbook (minimal resource) experience.
Time to resume the yard work. 1 more hour today working under my 3 hour rule — anything is possible with 3 hours effort per day / more effort is allowed only if you really enjoy what you’re doing.
Comment By: Ma
May 7th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
I embrace your 3 hour rule–I find it more and more difficult to get so caught up in yard work that I forget the time: knees, shoulders, back all let me know when my three hours are up. Glad you’re happy with the drupal and ubuntu (where do they get these unsavory names?), but I sure can’t see a difference,
Comment By: jeff
May 10th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
The homepage looks a little cleaner, so thumbs-up there. Saw the release of the netbook Ubuntu release & thought it might be worthwhile to install on the ancient laptop still lying around, but since the wifi adapter I have is so outdated it’d be little more than a glorified word processor at this point, so I think I’ll let it rest.
I like the 3 hour rule, too.
Comment By: Pa
May 10th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Jeff — The ‘ancient laptop’ is probably not a good candidate. I had Ubuntu running on my old Toshiba a couple years ago, and it was a tight fit then. Now the minimum recommended hardware has 512MB ram and 4GB HDD. Note that I did reinstall the UNR on a larger partition when I started having trouble installing updates with just 2.5MB HDD partition.