Here’s a screenshot of Gentoo using a KDE desktop with a background picture of Jim and Maggie. There’s nothing uniquely special about it. A couple of extra observations from my previous post: Gentoo boots more quickly than any other distro I’ve tried; about the same as Windows XP. Some of the stable packages are out [...]
Internet Explorer 7
I’ve installed the latest release candidate of IE7 on my laptop. It’s fairly impressive and has some features that are similar to Flock and Firefox. The most obvious improvement on previous versions of IE is the implementation of tabbed browsing. It takes a while adjusting to the look and feel, which will make the transition [...]
Web sites and hosting
I’ve had a reseller account with Site 5 for over a year now. The price is good and the reliability is excellent, but security is of some concern. On several occasions I’ve suffered hacker attacks and that’s never happened to me with other hosting providers. That’s not to say the others are safer, but maybe [...]
Lake Ballard
We went to Lake Ballard today. It’s about 190km north west of Kalgoorlie past Menzies, which is just over 130km. Menzies is a small town with not much there except an interesting collection of old machinery, which James enjoyed playing on. Lake Ballard was a dry salt pan. There’s a small hill near the car [...]
Mild weather continues
May 12, 2006 at 10:02 pm
I stopped checking the weather forecast for a while and I didn’t miss anything because every day was 23 degrees. The temperature is now starting to increase and the forecast for Tuesday is 27 degrees. These figures are incomprehensible in May for someone from cooler climes in Victoria. The last low-level snowfall we experienced at [...]
