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The ham salad will have to wait until tomorrow, I'm out of mayonnaise. I still have plenty of celery though.
Thats ok,, because of you planting the seed, I had to make egg salad for lunch today. Mine didnt require celery, just eggs, mayo, sweet relish, and onion. Damn good sandwich.
 

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Thats ok,, because of you planting the seed, I had to make egg salad for lunch today. Mine didnt require celery, just eggs, mayo, sweet relish, and onion. Damn good sandwich.
Very similar to what I plan to use to make ham salad.
 

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Linux looks more and more appealing. I have one program for which there no equivalent in Linux. I am thinking about a work around - manual entry of data into a Libre Office spreadsheet rather than automated by the Windows only program.

I could be an economist. On the other hand...maybe this hack of the update "services" will stick.
 

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Linux looks more and more appealing. I have one program for which there no equivalent in Linux. I am thinking about a work around - manual entry of data into a Libre Office spreadsheet rather than automated by the Windows only program.

Have you used Linux yet? I am usually playing a podcast while I work on the computer and Linux multitasks horribly. LibreOffice crashes if you leave it open for too long. Luckily its data recovery hasn't failed yet. Then there are the updates and installing can be a PIA sometimes. Lack of drivers also can be a problem and when they are there, they are generic and won't take full advantage of the device. Then there is virtually no support whatsoever to also deal with. And don't get me started what won't run under Linux. :(
 

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Have you used Linux yet? I am usually playing a podcast while I work on the computer and Linux multitasks horribly. LibreOffice crashes if you leave it open for too long. Luckily its data recovery hasn't failed yet. Then there are the updates and installing can be a PIA sometimes. Lack of drivers also can be a problem and when they are there, they are generic and won't take full advantage of the device. Then there is virtually no support whatsoever to also deal with. And don't get me started what won't run under Linux. :(

I have used it. I put it on an old Dell Latitude with 8 Gig RAM. The drivers all worked fine and LibreOffice worked OK for me. Now, I am not much of a multitasker, generally I have two maybe three programs open at any given time. I did leave it and returned to the more familiar environs of Microsoft.
 

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I could be an economist. On the other hand...maybe this hack of the update "services" will stick.
Ubuntu is one of the easiest distros to get fully up and running out of the box. Your windows program might run under Wine, it's a Windows emulator for linux.

I always run Debian. Started with slackware, moved onto Redhat until it was discontinued and then onto it's successor Fedora. Which I didn't like so I switched to Debian and never looked back.

You can fire up Ubuntu from a DVD burn or memory stick, that way you don't have to modify your existing setup just to check it out. It's a little slow from DVD though. ;)
 

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Your windows program might run under Wine, it's a Windows emulator for linux.

Then maybe not. ;)

I always run Debian. Started with slackware, moved onto Redhat until it was discontinued and then onto it's successor Fedora. Which I didn't like so I switched to Debian and never looked back.

I forget what distro that came on the Linux version of those Asus EeePC. It was one that nobody had ever heard of before probably. It used licensed code in it so it wasn't available for free. But I loved that one. You could set it up like an Android like desktop or a Windows like desktop. But updating it requires recompiling everything. What a PIA. And if you had one of those 2GB EeePC, it was next to impossible. :(

You can fire up Ubuntu from a DVD burn or memory stick, that way you don't have to modify your existing setup just to check it out. It's a little slow from DVD though. ;)

As long as you don't have one of those TPM Windows machines. Because then it isn't going to load or run. :(
 

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I finally received that first DRL module that I ordered from Hong Kong. It took 19 days to get to San Diego after clearing customs in Los Angeles. I no longer have need of it.

Something strange about the address label, after my name and address it listed my phone number that I disconnected more than 2 years ago. I immediately went to my Ebay and Paypal account to see if I had updated my number or not. The number listed both places was my current number.
 
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I received my $399 Ca. licence plates today, it's a good thing that I didn't buy a new BMW or they would have been at least double that.
A good chunk of the fee is based on the cars value. But age also enters into it. A Model T worth $100000 would be the lowest fee, approx. $135.
 

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I forget what distro that came on the Linux version of those Asus EeePC. It was one that nobody had ever heard of before probably. It used licensed code in it so it wasn't available for free. But I loved that one. You could set it up like an Android like desktop or a Windows like desktop. But updating it requires recompiling everything. What a PIA. And if you had one of those 2GB EeePC, it was next to impossible. :(
Wow, that's going back a few. I remember those Eee PCs and Xandros Linux is what was on them.
DistroWatch.com: Xandros Desktop OS
 

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As long as you don't have one of those TPM Windows machines. Because then it isn't going to load or run.
TPM is only useful in enterprise environments, makes no sense to have a personal computer with it enabled. If I was sold a new windows machine with TPM enabled, it would be going back that same day for a refund or they would be doing a full reinstall of Windows without TPM.
 

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