http://www.theheals.org/ Karen and Jon's irregular account of their family's mundane existence. en-us http://www.theheals.org/media/images/rss_button.gif http://www.theheals.org/ Copyright 2010 Jon and Karen Heal. All Rights Reserved. Jon's Deluxe RSS Thing-a-ma-jig admin@theheals.org Jeff is the prime suspect in the cold-blooded (fish are cold-blooded, right?) murder of one of our aquarium snails. Karen -- poor naïve girl -- still thinks the snail climbed out of his own shell and wandered off to die on his own. http://www.theheals.org/journal.asp?type=2&id=392 Jon Mon, 8 Mar 2010 13:44:43 GMT I had a nice little plan to reuse an old motherboard I had lying around. I intended to build a super-cheap box to serve up FreeNAS. However, I just jabbed the board with a screwdriver. It's dead. Again I say, CRAP!!!!! http://www.theheals.org/journal.asp?type=2&id=391 Jon Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:46:38 GMT Yesterday, I bought a circa 2003 eMac to replace the ten-year-old G3 iMac in the boys' room. Craigslist. 60 bucks. This is the second generation model with a 1GHz processor. There are faster eMacs out there, but not for $60. And this one even ... http://www.theheals.org/journal.asp?type=2&id=390 Jon Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:25:44 GMT First, I accidentally intstalled Ubuntu server. I couldn't figure out why the installation never got as far as the GUI (Gnome or whatever) until I finally took note of the name of the installer file -- I had downloaded the wrong item. Of course being ... http://www.theheals.org/journal.asp?type=2&id=389 Jon Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:35:54 GMT I may attempt to install Ubuntu on our old G3 iMac. It runs fairly dog-like in OS X, and there are no further upgrade paths, so I don't think I have much to lose. I can always reload OS X if it doesn't work out. http://www.theheals.org/journal.asp?type=2&id=388 Jon Thu, 7 Jan 2010 21:31:27 GMT