I have a Samba share working! It was really simple! It's actually really interesting how many things in Linux I've fought with, let be for a while and then when I look at them again, they are completely easy. All I had to do was install swat, enable it, which in Debian is in /etc/inetd.conf. Everywhere I looked online said it was in /etc/xinetd (or something) but I didn't have that on my computer. Then I had to make sure that my settings were okay, for some reason password encryption was off, that gave me a big headache for a while. Once that was fixed though, it was no problem to set up a share

So, I found out that by telling Audible.com I'd subscribe for a year, they would give me $100 off a Zire. I did it and purchased the Zire 31. (Original one resold on ebay) I love this thing. It understands my hand written notes...the calendar is simple and easy to use and it SYNCS. It syncs no problem with outlook at work. There are problems syncing it with Linux. For some reason, linux doesn't want to see it as a device and when it does, kpilot won't see that device. I think it needs a little more work on my part and I'm not ready to do that yet...

Went shopping this weekend and found JEANS that FIT. I was elated. New shoes also on the way from Zappos.com and I picked up a few new shirts. :D:D

Also, I updated to the 2.6 kernel. I had to find a new driver as NVIDIA doesn't support 2.6 yet, but it was fairly easy to find and recompile. However, it doesn't stay, I have to redo it every time I restart. I'm not sure why but since I barely ever restart I'm not going to sweat about it right now...

Have I mentioned what a geek I am? Now to get my wireless keyboard working.

On Friday I bought a Zire off of ebay. I don't need a Zire, I have my Zaurus....(are we noticing a pattern here?)...but there are so many programs for it. So far the best looks to be Life Balance. I'm also excited about syncing with both Linux and Outlook (work).
Then again, I'm worried that I'm a bit too excited about this. It's not going to be the answer to all my organizational problems. I want it to be, and I have grand plans to keep all my data in it. I never stay organized like that though...well we'll see how that Life Balance program works out. It could be at least a stepping stone to my being perfectly organized.

I have my little laptop up and running again. It's the cutest little thing, an IBM Thinkpad 701c with the butterfly keyboard. It's also ancient, they stopped making them in 1996, and I bought mine in 2000. I've messed around with it quite a lot, and finally last winter got a working debian install on it. I don't remember how now and stupidly didn't take good notes so I won't be reinstalling any time soon.
It's a 486 processor with 40MB of RAM (maxed out) and an upgraded hard drive of 4GB. They originally came with a max hard drive of about 800MB. I can't do much multitasking with it, but I love it for my in bed laptop because it's a sub-notebook so very little and light and plus it just so darn cute.

Today we went home and visited my in-laws. Nice people. Sweet people. Horse people. Now I don't mind horses, and I'm glad that they have a hobby that they can share and enjoy. However, I don't *get* horses. To me riding around the countryside would be utter bordem. I am not a fan of nature - ok nature is good outside of the window. Riding in a ring for prizes is even more unfathomable to me. Why put all that work into it when it's not good for anything but show? Again, I'm sure that they think it's tons of fun and that's ok with me.
However, because of this non-understanding of horses I can only talk about them for so long. I can visit with someone excited about horses for about an hour. I can extend that for a while longer by switching the majority of my answers to "wow" or "really?" Also insert plenty of smiling an nodding. However, when you visit someone for several hours and the conversation only occasionally drifts away from horses I get bored out of my freaking mind. I was just zoned out completely by the time we left.
In good news, I had a nice juicy visit with my step-grandmother-in-law, another recent addition to the family. She understands that I'm having a hard time adjusting to a family that is always on the move, doesn't understand special, and makes decisions in a snap. She also understands that my mother-in-law isn't the warmest person on the face of the plant and we can discuss (ok, gossip a bit) why and how to make things better. Best of all nothing gets taken the wrong way and I don't have to worry about it biting me later.

I'm feeling very brave. I'm downloading sources from cvs. KDE sources. I *really* want KDE 3.3. Seems like it's for a silly reason...I want my Zaurus to sync. I had kitchensync compiled, but it broke with KDE 3.2. I didn't think much about it, but since I've started the managing part of my job I've been obcessed with organization. So, I'm carefully following this guide and praying. The way it's laid out it *shouldn't* mess up my existing install (the way I did when I installed 3.2 ahead of time and got myself tangled in dependencies.)

there aren't any configure files in any of the stuff I've downloaded. The doc I'm following says there should be. There is a configure.in.in and I'm supposed to do something with autoconf

Yea for kde-women!!
make -f Makefile.cvs

However, the doc there makes me a bit nervous because it's not all in the home directory of the user I'm setting it up for...however, if I wanted my main user to switch to it, I could more easily with the kde-women doc.

My apologies, the makefile thing was in the first doc too.

I love my Neuros!!
It is so easy to play my audio books now! There are five preset buttons
on the Neuros that can be set to basically bookmark anything. I'm
guessing most people use them to set favorite radio stations, but I'm
using one to bookmark my spot in my book. It's saved me a lot of
headache. All I have to do is remember to set it every now and then.
(http://www.neurosaudio.com)

Neuros order in...the bundle I want is on back order, so it will be a couple weeks before it ships.

Today my want is the Neuros. It has ogg support (any player that doesn't is instantly dropped from consideration) It comes optionally in what they call a bundle. A small flash player with a hard drive 'backpack'. Personally I think that's a great idea. You can just take the flash player on active events, but keep the GB's handy. Plus you can upgrade that backpack if you so choose. Also included is a built in FM transmitter for playing audio in your car or at home on your radio if you wish. You can record to mp3 or wav. Since it has a FM tuner, you can record radio programs. One feature that I think is absolutely wonderful is the ability to record a bit (at least 30 seconds) of a song, and next time you sync, it will look it up for you and get the name and artist of the song. It's a little bigger than an iPod but for all the extra features you get, that cost extra on an iPod, and the fact that it's cheaper overall, it's got the iPod beat hands down. Only problem now is I want the 256MB flash part, and that's not for sale yet. However it's promised soon so I'm trying to be patient and wait.
It's at http://www.neurosaudio.com.