Got the [1] blue screen of death on my primary XP machine on the home network and have spent several days trying to salvage data on the drive and to reboot the machine, but nothing is working so far.  Most of my data is backed up on network drives, but I lose my email stuff that is local on the hard drive of this machine.  I figure these occasional crashes are a message from the universe that it’s time for a change.

I have tried migrating to Linux several times without long term success.  I am trying again.  I have rebooted my machine with an IDE drive running [2] openSuse 11.4 that was just released and I am slowly reconstructing my cyber interface with the [3] world.  openSuse seems pretty powerful.  I have always worked primarily on MS machines going back from command line dos stuff up through XP.  Some of the operating systems have been better than others.  I like XP and Win2K but they are getting a little old.  I have one machine on the home network running Vista Ultimate.  It’s ok, but seems a little flashy.

Lately M and I have been doing video editing using [4] Final Cut Express and that has to be done on a Mac OS, so that experience may have opened me up a bit to OpenSuse.  It seems to me that Mac and Linux share some look and feel that is not present in [5] GatesWare.  Anyway, I hope to be back to posting on stuff other than operating systems in the near future.   There is a lot of stuff going on.  I am really pretty disconnected when my primary home machine is down. Japan’s earthquake is huge.  And the apparent nuclear reactor accident that is going on in the aftermath of the earthquake makes the argument about basic safety of this energy source that is sometimes posed as green energy based on the limited CO2 emissions of a nuclear plant.  I guess we need to remember that there are many kinds of emissions.  The wars in Libya and Wisconsin continue with the folks in power doing everything they can to maintain or increase control.  Will see if I can get back up to speed in the coming week.