All right, switch, modem, printer, scanner, laptop, main computer and an old computer. Add some ethernet cables and voilá! There is clutter. I am thinking of ways to tidy up the space under my computer desk, it would be easier to just hide the cables with a board. But no, I want to make it look neat. So, I am thinking I should start by fixing the black power bar and the surge protectors under the top board. Then, I'd like to find some kind of sleeve to pack up the cables in, I may need three or four sleeves.
As for the computer, I took the side panel off to remove my 1 TB drive, who kindly decided to warn me before kicking the bucket. I have pictures of that. :(
It was established by the UN back in 1972! I just learned about it... yesterday. Shame on me. Really.
What did you do for the environment in its day?
I haven been using BioLinux 5.0 at work for about 3 weeks now. Which it's based on Ubuntu 8.04. Installation of BioLinux was easy, if one let the installer do its trick, it's almost as easier as installing Windows XP. I didn't ditch my Windows XP installation, I set up a Windows-Linux dual-boot sytem, with Linux as default.
So far, everything is good, a little geeky sometimes (like installing OpenOffice 3.0). But, I was missing the convenience of using an email client, particularly the one I configured and am using right now: Mozilla's Thunderbird. All right, my profile is in the Windows partition along with near 1 GB of email in files and folders and my BioLinux partion has about 3 GB of free space. So, space was a constraint and I wanted to avoid duplicating email files and folders. I invoked Google and searched for an answer, okay, I googled for an answer (damned new verbs) and found this page with straight forward instructions as to how to share the same profile and the same files and folders. Now, Ubuntu 8.04 can write NTFS partions so I didn't move my profile to a FAT32 partition, followed the rest of the instructions and fired Thunderbird.
It worked. No problems, except for weird characters infiltrating as a result of copying and pasting between terminals while editing the profile.js file in nano. While I felt a little geeky, it wasn't much of an "excitement." I already know certain things that helped me through the howto but it certainly feels as if linux has never been easier.
I am not a cat person, but I am fascinated by spotted feral felines.
Some technical details. Video taken with a Panasonic Lumix FZ28 camera. Audio: 1 channel, 16 bit, 16 KHz PCM. Video: MJEPG 1280x720, at 30 fps in a MOV container. Uploaded to youtube as 848x480 at 29.97 fps, Xvid Q1 with audio in mp3 in an AVI container.
I love my camera. That's about it.
As a curiousity, when I looged into my flickr I was greeted by :
O HAI Pako Pirata!
Now you know how to greet people in Lolspeak!
I was like "what the heck...," but then I thought it was the whimsical flickr-team at work. I have screenshots to prove it in case anyone finds it inconceivable.
There is some kind of rainfall (a bit more than a drizzle) in this part of the continent in January. In Lima we get a light rain during winter (July thru September) and rarely during spring. However we don't get any kind of rainfall during summer. Today, there was some sprinkling. I was very much surprised. Also, today is kind of "fresh" out there, not too hot as the past week has been.
This makes me wonder whether we will get a "proper" rain in a few years from now, as the climate keeps changing. The city is not ready for it. The houses weren't built with rain in mind. The sewers and the roads weren't built for a rainy climate. Even worse, the global weather change may in the future alter the highly diverse Humboldt Current Large Marine Ecosystem (HCLME), just to mention one of the many great sources of biodiversity of the world. The HCLME is also a source of food, about 8 to 9 million metric tons of fish and other marine organisms are extracted yearly along the Peruvian coastline and territorial waters. If the Humboldt Current were to disappear, it would be a major disaster in so many ways.
Back to climate change. I know what weather change is like. I was living in Lima while the 1997-98 "El Niño," 1998 was just summer, no fall, no winter, no spring. Summer. One of my friends got this job at a fishing company in 1998, he was in charge of examing satellite images to look for possible locations of large schools of fish, basing his observations on temperature and chlorophyll data. Thanks to "El Niño" there was next to nothing worth in the images. Because he couldn't get any results, he was fired. It wasn't his fault they couldn't fish much that year. It was the unpredictability of "El Niño."
What am I doing to help twarting the effects of pollution on climate? I am not buying a car and am discouraging my friends from buying one.
It was a very interesting experience.
I just read this article and it's sickened me. I don't understand why anyone could such things to another human being. They don't deserve life sentences, they deserve the gas chamber.
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