Ok, not so much wild, as lots of “wild” animals in the park. Saw 4 rabbits, 5 cranes.. The second couple would not actually come over to where I feed them, but was over by the tower. I also saw all 5 chickens, plenty of squirrels and cardinals. Great morning! I love seeing all the wild life. And it sure beats the wild dogs Emmy is carrying a stick to fend off.
So I realized yesterday I did not say how I installed Debian. I used their net install disk and downloaded the majority of my setup from the net. I picked a server that is fairly close to me and got great speed. Did not take very long at all. I just wish they gave the option(maybe they do, but it was not obvious) to pick and choose my packages more. I basically had like 5 options to choose from, and it installed the “standard” packages for what you wanted to do. Kinda cool, but kinda a bummer too. Some of us like to shave off what we do not need or want on an install. Like I said though, who knows, they may have the option somewhere that I missed, although, if they do, it was not obvious.
So the net stuff turned out to be no problem with Gnome. I figured it out, and you can book mark stuff and everything. Pretty cool. My major obstacle has really been trying to figure out which applications I should use to do what, as it is different in KDE. Not a big problem, just minor annoyances for the most part. For example, I have to use Firestarter instead of Guarddog for my Firewall program. Has a different interface, and I am still not sure what I think of it, but it has the monitoring of the firewall built right in also, which is pretty cool.
I have been learning more and more about the Gnome equivalent of Konq. It is called Nautilus. It seems rock solid. I been having fun setting background and panels up with nifty neato tiles. I used my grey brick and white brick tiles, and I think it looks pretty solid. 😛 Runs solid too! I am becoming more and more impressed. I will continue to play with this and when Emmy gets back, if I am still impressed, I maybe trying to talk her into switching over to Debian also. One of the cool things about that is, it would allow her to use CNR again eventually. Not that I think she needs it at this point, but I think she might like options. 🙂
So I had Pidgin IM on last night as I compiled it and am running it on here. If I was willing to run Debian Lenny instead(the testing branch of Debian) I could have just installed it with apt-get, but since I wanted to test the stable etch out first, only Gaim was available. Since I have had several family members start using Myspace IM, I figured I would installed pidgin, which gives me access to that, as well as my normal ICQ and Aim lists. Much easier to keep everything in one place. Anyways, my Mom happened to message me last night and ask what we were all to. I told her that me and Bleys were just watching some TV, and I had no idea about Emmy as she was in Tucson. Hehe, kinda surprised her. Anyways, after she got over the surprise, she suggested we go out to dinner tonight. She wants to go out for Mexican, which I have been very under whelmed with in Florida. I sure envy Emmy and her trip to Carolinas in Phoenix. Hope it was good Emmy! No clue what we will be having as I kinda told my Mom I had mostly been disappointed with the Mexican here. We will see though.
As I had planned on fixing Japanese at home tonight, I pretty much figure the food has to be better to lure me out, ya know? Ah well, we will see what happens. Love you Emmy! Tell everyone out there I said hi, and sorry I could not come. And give your brother and Jeannie congrats from me.
