Amateurs @ the Post Office

Eugh. The run up to Christmas. Tons of unwashed masses at the Post Office with their parcels, incomplete/non-existant forms deliberating for hours over which rate they want.

And then there is me. Nineth back in the line. Form ready, waiting for amateurs to stumble through the process of mailing a gift to Manitoba with more angst than NASA needs to get cargo to the ISS.

I hate the festive period. :(

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Missing blog

Thanks to some asshats who keep abusing the blog-script on my front page I've had to remove it.

It bastards kept injecting urls into my legitimate html source which would lead to Google and others reporting that my site was laden with evil.

Assholes.

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Success & Whoops

I'm dead excited to report that using SynCE I've got my Windows Mobile device to talk to Evolution on Linux.

The downside is that rather than taking the contacts and calendar from my phone and moving them to Evolution, I took the nothing in Evolution and blew everything away on my phone. Ooops.

If you call me or I miss an appointment, Im sorry - my phone has temporary amnesia until I can restore from a backup.

Love, me.

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Migration to Linux Almost Done

For a few years now I've been going back and forth to Linux trying to figure out if I can get Floating Point into the Open Source world.

I'm quite excited that for the last week things have been going 'OK'.  Not fantastic I'll grant you but OK.

The major obstacle is that all of my current designs and client-base are heavily entrenched into Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw, so to get around this I'm running a virtualized Windows XP environment via VMware server under Linux.  Although a little sluggish on my laptop it's tolerable and I have my XP workstation to fall back on if things get very tedious.  Aside from Quickbooks and the software that drives my label printer everything else has been migrated to Debian.

There are still some quirks.  I haven't got my Windows Mobile Palm synchronizing with 'Evolution' yet, but I'm getting there.

Generally speaking things are more clunky under Linux, but on the whole routine tasks are much faster than Windows.

I'll keep you posted...

Leighton, Owner Floating Point Digital Images 403.510.4793, www.fpdimages.com