Pod 16 - Puppy Linux and guns, oh my!
(Podcast audio is below photos and words.)
Michael W. Dean and Debra Jean Dean talk about why they hate Christmas, why Vietnamese cats love the sound of their voices, how to travel in a sports car if you’re on food stamps, why DJ is “happier than a milf in a craft store”, Stephen King’s writing desk, how to make a dedicated space to write, why Linux is libertarian, how Michael is going to make a million dollars this year writing a self-help book, the difference between being “house poor” and “life rich”, and why Puppy Linux is as cool as guns.
January 5th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Good Show.
I played with Puppy Linux a couple months ago. Very simple to use and lightweight, it’s great for speeding up an old system if all you want to do is surf the web, email and simple word processing. If you need a heartier operating system I suggest Ubuntu. It is a full service flavor of linux and is still lightweight enough to make an old system run respectably.
I have an old IMB Thinkpad. The optical drive is made to be removed and swapped out with a floppy drive. If you could keep the eject hardware intact it would make a great place to attach the thumb drive for your project. You may be able to make it so it would be easily accessed if you attached the thumb dive with a short extension cable.
January 5th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Excellent! and thank you.
I found a great photo taken on the International Space Station in 2004 of a cosmonaut using the exact ThinkPad model I ordered:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TORU_docking_system.jpg
Reminds me of Sgt. Friday’s line about the Yugo in the movie “Dragnet”: “It’s the the cutting edge of Serbo-Croatian technology!”
Puppy performs well on “Yugo” computers.
January 7th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
“System Tray of life.” LOLZ. Nice song at the end, Michael.
January 10th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Thanks! I made it myself.
March 8th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
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