Michael Gorey
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Random thoughts and observations from Mount Gambier
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21 March 2008

Maggie’s voice

I tried to get Jim to talk into the recorder today, but he wouldn’t. So here is Maggie again:

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15 December 2007

Jim sings Puff the Magic Dragon

I’m thinking a lot about the twins tonight because it’s their fourth birthday tomorrow. Jim likes singing. His favorite songs at the moment are Jingle Bells and Puff the Magic Dragon. Here he is singing Puff:

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25 June 2006

New laptop

I indulged and bought myself a new laptop this week. There were some good end-of-financial year sales and this coincided with the mysterious random crash of my desktop PC.

The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 640. It has a 60GB hard drive, DVD RW, 1024MB RAM, Intel 1.66 processor and all the bells and whistles for networking.

Windows XP was pre-installed and this weekend I’ve successfully added Kanotix. I’m in the process of installing Puppy megapup with KDE and Grafpup multimedia. Read more »

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30 September 2005

New version of Puppy

A new version of the Puppy Linux live CD has been released. I’ve been playing with Puppy since December and it’s definitely the best live Linux distro out there.

Better than Knoppix? It’s horses for courses, but I can’t see much sense in running a fully featured distro from a CD for everyday use.

It needs to be small enough to run from RAM, which rules out all the big distros. There are some nice-looking smaller distros like Slax and its derivatives, but you need geek skills to add software and save the configuration. I haven’t figured that out with Slax yet. Read more »

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