22 Dec 05 T – 2 days until Christmas
Well christmas is almost here. Only days away. Today my 6 1/2 day vacation (half of it is paid as well 
) started. I went to bed at 9am-ish with out any problems but when I woke up at 3pm I woke up with a damn cold. Since then it has worsened as well. First it was just dizyness and just unwillingness to do anything, now I am dripping and sneezing like crazy. I know for sure I got this from Cam and her cold only lasted 2 days so hopefully with plenty of sleep and enough relaxation (which I was planning to do anyways) this curse, I mean cold will be gone from my system on Christmas.
Only three more gifts need to arrive. Today the mailbox was completely empty so I am hoping that these gifts will arrive before the 25th. Thankfully one has a tracking number and is scheduled for delivery tomorrow, but the other gifts are shipped by the unreliable USPS media mail (where it can take from 3 – 30 days and it doesn’t even depend on location, trust me on that one).
Last thing. Last week a fellow colleague (Matt) came to work with a lappie that had Ubuntu installed on it. Well last weekend I converted over (having tried Fedora, Mandrake and Suse) and I found myself hooked. Matt is right, this is comfortable for anyone to use. Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntulinux.org) is based off of the conservative but very stable Debian distribution. I can honestly say that it is very stable. The only thing I had to do was update the default ipw2200 driver & firmware to a higher version. The defaults just wouldn’t talk with my Linksys WRT54G router. Only thing I hope they will add in the next release is WPA support. There is a way to get it in there but its messy. Right now I have had to reduce my wireless router settings from WPA to WEP. Not very happy about that, but I don’t think I am in any significant danger as I hardly doubt that anyone around here hacks Wifi networks for a living and if they do, my laptop can pick up on 3 other (using default shipped names & default router passwords) wifi networks.
