Operating Systems the Way I Like ‘em
The main things happening in my business sphere is this matter of installing new operating systems on computers. Then fine-tuning them the way I like them. Big beautiful roses for backgrounds, windows in my shades of pink and green, and larger fonts, is just the start.
I did the one at the office a couple of weeks ago, and seem to have things working smoothly here. The one at home on Saturday seemed to go by so much faster, because I was using a fully loaded DVD rather than the netinstall which had not worked the previous weekend at home.
However, I found there was much more fine-tuning to do and some things have gone really buggy. Firefox and OpenOffice.org, two programs I depend on all day long were acting sluggish and unresponsive after a few hours. I love to multi-task and have several things open and happening at once, but I couldn’t click or do anything until one error message had shown up, and everything was taking long minutes to show up rather than the split seconds I was used to.
I went searching online with other browsers (and also phoned Jondalar) and tried several “fixes.” All the programs became more cooperative, but one of the fixes may have messed up Firefox because by evening it would only open my home page, for BBN, my favourite online radio. So I started using Konqueror and Opera. The creative resourcefulness I have inherited from my Dad really got a workout as I kept looking for answers.
KMail wouldn’t let some of my email accounts SEND until I discovered that I had to tick TLS instead of SSL for the security method. Things like that.
In the evening I wanted to finish up this next issue of Reflections so it can go to press this week. (Sigh)! What a merry-go-round of problems to work at. I couldn’t access the already proof-read pages, and had to re-do some work from last week. I’ll have to really dig in this afternoon to catch up and do all that I had hoped to do last night!
Throughout all that though, I was aware that I was blessed with good health, I was in a safe, warm place, and God cares for me. These troubles will help me to help someone else eventually.