This Time, It's Not the Hardware

Dear internet tech gurus,

How can I beat resource-hogging LUCOMS~1.EXE with a stick?

Thanks!

-A. (who'd like her CPU cycles back, thanks much)

The Quotidian Realities of Being 25

( Every day is a winding road. )

Random time!

naominovik will be reading and signing at Bailey's Crossroads on July 16th. I need to go so I finally get the pronunciation of "Temeraire" from the horse's mouth, as it were.

2,000 year old date palm sprouted. There have been many claims of "ancient" seeds germinating but usually without well-accepted verification of the seeds' ages . . . the scientists dated shell fragments clinging to rootlets from the seed and arrived at an age of about 1700 years. The researchers suspect that the original seed was closer to 2000 years old but that the carbon the plant incorporated as it grew skewed the calculations.

Screen on the Green 2008.

I've got one tab open to update, and five other tabs open to today's computer adventure: installing the "Hardy Heron" Ubuntu distro of Linux. Partitions are weird. Watch this space for wacky Ubuntu learning curve fun and games!

(Oh drat, I was going to name this desktop Moya! Now I'm going to have to go back and rename everything! Ooops!)

Tomorrow: company picnic, more fun with Moya (I have a Moya! Everyone should have a Moya. But then you start renaming your peripherals, and it's all fun and games until you realize you're going to have to name one of your peripherals after the crazy hero), and figuring out what dinner will be for the rest of the week.