July 27, 2008: Glass Explosion

If you ever need a laugh at the expense of cruelly tortured children, spend some time at Not Without My Handbag’s Guide to Bad Baby Names.  You will cry with laughter and, we hope, sympathy. We slept in a little today but nothing like yesterday.  Dominica was up around ten or so.  I always get …

July 25, 2008: So We Bought a House…

Little Lulu Moppet lives at 22 Main Street in Meadowville (aka Peekskill, New York.) Little Lulu is a classic American comic strip character from the 1930s. The rain is gone and the hot, humid weather is back in force in the New York Metro area. Not only is it hot today but tomorrow and Sunday …

Installing Fedora 9 Linux in VirtualPC

If you are using Microsoft’s VirtualPC 2007 as a host for installing Red Hat’s Fedora 9 Linux (aka Sulphur) distribution you may have run into a few problems.  The first problem that plagues just about anyone attempting to install the latest versions of Linux (not just Fedora) is that of auto-detected virtualization.  To overcome this …