It’s a goner!

SUDDENLY, after five years and some of flawless operation, the computer refused to boot.

The hard disk looks fine, and I may be able to recover the data (it’s a good thing that I have been replicating all of it onto an external disk for the past few weeks). There are other bits that are worth salvaging; the still-decent GeForce 6800FX, for example.

Just when I was starting to enjoy this computer as a graphics workstation, what with the new printer, scanner, Wacom tablet, and new workflow. I am tempted by a Dell XPS M1330 with Ubuntu Linux 8.04, but in the meantime the aging D610 will have to do — the MacBook Pro has been taken over by Pris.

Eddy.

Linux, shoes, and pictures

TRUST ME, those Linux zealots have never had to print thirty-odd pictures of shoes on a high-end inkjet printer from Linux. I suspect that if they had, they would admit that maybe Linux is just not there yet.

I have tried, and I can tell you that even the great gutenprint does not cut it. I ended up making all the prints from Mac OS X, but later found the excellent TurboPrint for Linux — sorry again, Linux zealots, it’s not open-source.

Why was I printing pictures of shoes anyway? Girls will relate. When you have so many pairs of shoes, getting ready to go out can become tedious if you have to open all the boxes to get the right ones. A simple solution is to affix a picture of the contents on each shoe-box.

Gee, a post that has something for everyone: Linux, shoe fetish, fashion tip, and photography.

Eddy.