I signed up for a Hulu Plus account yesterday. The idea was that I’d use it on my PS3 to catch up on a few shows, and maybe watch a few of the Criterion Collection movies that they’ve got on there now. I’ve been pretty disappointed with it though. The biggest problem is that the audio isn’t quite in sync with the video. It’s not too far off, but it’s off enough to be a bit of a distraction. And the video gets a bit jaggy sometimes. I’ve run some speed tests on my internet connection, and it really ought to be good enough to do streaming video. I may cancel the account before my one-week trial is up. Or I might keep it long enough to catch up on Misfits and the last season of Battlestar Galactica, then cancel it.
Month: February 2012
Linux
I decided to spend a little time today installing Ubuntu 11.10 on my old Dell Inspiron laptop.
It’s been a while since I messed around with Linux. Just for yuks, I went back and looked at some old notes and posts to see if I could piece together my history with Linux. I think the first Linux distro I ever used was this old one, which I think came on two 5 1/4″ floppies. That probably would have been in 1993. I had wanted to get some Unix experience, since the company I was working for at the time was being purchased by a company that used some flavor of Unix on the back-end, so I wanted to be prepared for that. (In the end, I didn’t stick around for too long, so it didn’t matter much anyway.)
Past that, I remember using Red Hat 5, so that would have been 1997, and Corel Linux, probably in 2000. And I used various versions of Fedora at my previous job, for various purposes. And I can see that I was messing around with Ubuntu back in 2007.
The Ubuntu install finished up while I was typing this, and it looks like everything worked. In the past, any Linux install I did on a laptop would usually have at least one minor problem, either with video, audio, or networking. But so far, it looks like this one is fine. Now I need to sit down with this machine and see if I can get Apache, PHP, and MySQL all running, so I can mess around with Drupal in a Linux environment.
Mom & Pat
I just finished uploading some more of Dad’s old photos. The ones I uploaded today were scanned in by ScanCafe back in December 2010. Here’s a nice photo of Mom & Pat, from Pat’s graduation from TCNJ. I still have one more DVD from ScanCafe to copy to my computer & upload, then I think I’m finally done with this project that I started back in early 2010. (Of course, the next project is to digitize the old Buxton family home movies I found in the attic when I was cleaning it out.)
Mom passed away on Feb 1 2010, and Pat passed away on Feb 2 2004, so I spent some time thinking of them both this past week.