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This
morning the skies are grey and winter seems like it
will last FOREVER! Not true of course, winter will not
last forever, it probably won't even last a month. I
wouldn't mind if, on that one day a week that Attila
has off work, the weather would permit us to move beyond
the walking-distance world. But, almost all Sunday's
this past winter have been miserable, keeping us close
to home. Last weekend we managed to get out and about by visiting the public library in the village where some of my ancestors pioneered. The library has a wonderful Historical Collection, and we enjoyed a few hours of browsing. I am still on the lookout for information as to just who my Great Great Grandfather was, his parents, his death, his burial. He was either a very wily character, or a person whose ancestry and death fell through every crack in written history. Knowing my extended family as I do, I suspect he was a very wily character. Members of this family are not intellectual slouches. This morning I decided to play around with a blog, so I downloaded WordPress to get started. The dial-up connection is being dominated at the moment by a download of the latest version of NeoOffice, 134 MB. This download has been chugging away since yesterday morning, and I am hopeful it will complete sometime this afternoon. What this means is that the download of WordPress, an 864 kb file proceeded relatively quickly. Once the compressed file is opened though, it is over 4 MB and this would take hours to upload, since the dial-up connection is already busy downloading the NeoOffice update. What to do!?! A little legwork saved the situation. First, WordPress support recommends uploading the compressed file and decompressing on the remote server. They even tell you how to do this; use an SSH connection. So I uploaded the 864 kb file to my server, ready to be decompressed. Knowing I needed an SSH connection, and not having made one for several years, I found instructions in the support documents at my web host's site. Armed with instructions from WordPress and my web host, I proceeded to make the SSH connection via Terminal. I stopped there. My, how quickly we forget! I had forgotten the command line code to navigate to the directory where WordPress was waiting. Just couldn't remember! Basic stuff, so I rummaged around in my bookcase and plucked out my handy dandy copy of Learning Unix by James Gardner, published in 1994. cd directory name Simple, when you remember how to do it! Then I was off and running; the file is decompressed and awaiting installation. The Learning Unix book was a "one woman's garbage is another woman's treasure" acquisition. Once upon a time, while wandering the halls of a Canadian university, I happened upon a pile of books piled high and slated for destruction, the garbage. I pulled out a few gems, and Learning Unix was one of them. Certainly it isn't up to date, and much has changed. But for my simple needs this book is more than adequate. Basic navigation in UNIX has not changed all that much over the last 14 years; it is a good little reference book. When written instructions are well done, working with UNIX and servers is a lot of fun. Well, that is what I am doing with my time as I watch the snow melt, ever so slowly melt. Not very exiting, a woman of a certain age sitting in front of a lit screen with a little smile on her face. Reality TV couldn't be bothered, I'm sure! Just goes to show you though, "you can't judge a book by its cover". |
RECIPES :: Cast Wordly Distractions  Here I am, bundled up in my Cowichan sweater, trying to watch the snow melt, and failing miserably because it falling out of the sky at a great rate and accumulating all over the place! At least I have the bloom of the African Violet to cheer me up. Don't I look cheerful!?! I think I should get points for trying. Airwaves The Last Train to Glory by Arlo Guthrie On The Screen Northern Exposure Seoul Mates Episode By The Easy Chair The Three Miss Margarets by Louise Shaffer Quote "The full use of your powers along lines of excellence." - definition of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Weather Condition Partly Cloudy Temp-1.1°C Press 102.3 kPa falling Visibility 14.5 km Humidity 46 % Wind Chill -7 Dewpoint -11.3°C Wind ESE 21 km/h |
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