Monthly Archives: September 2007

LinuxMint 3.1

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I haven’t posted much of late on my Linux dabblings, but have been running various versions of LinuxMint 3 for the past few months. I just (as in yesterday) moved two of my boxes over to the newly-released version 3.1 and it went flawlessly. I’ve been running the past couple of betas for a month or so without any trouble, so I really didn’t expect any issues when 3.1 was announced.

As has become my practice, the first things I typically did after installing was to switch to stock installations of Firefox (Gran Paradiso aka Firefox 3 alpha 8, in this case) and OpenOffice, rather than the versions installed from the distro’s repositories.

Summer is officially over…

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Yeah, I know — I’m writing this on the next-to-last day of September. Of course summer is over, but we have been enjoying a very pleasant couple of weeks of weather that reminded me of why I like living in the northwest: warm sunny days in the 60′s and 70′s, with cool mornings and evenings. Perfect weather for being outside… which we are quite a bit these days with soccer.

When I got up this morning, though, the temperature is 33, the wind is blowing, and there is a skiff of snow on the grass and the roofs of houses. Ian has a match later today, and both of the teams I am coaching play this afternoon, as well.

There is also a freeze warning posted by the weather people, indicating that we are likely to drop to the mid-20′s tonight. That will pretty much finish off everything in the garden.

And just to make it official, we put away all of the patio furniture yesterday.

Summer is gone.