Saturday: Recycling, Geek stuff.
Jan. 7th, 2008 08:02 amSaturday, we woke late and did chores. Most of my Saturday, prior to, oh, 4PM, was spent running around doing errands: I managed to get the car cleaned, took four computers and one monitor to the PC recyclers (that's expensive! King County charges $5 per CPU box or laptop, and $10 per monitor, to recycle those things). I also bought a USB/Firewire capable IDE drive enclosure so Omaha could build a new OS drive for the girl's computer.
We've decided to give them Internet access-- email, IM, that stuff-- but we're going to give them a Mac and leave their computer in public view. That way they'll at least be safe from viruses and external attacks. We haven't made any decisions yet about putting a filtering proxy in the firewall, and we may never. Suffice it to say, it won't be because we're too lazy. The effort Omaha went through to get that G4 icecube rehabilitated and functional again was heroic.
Oh, and it also means that the girls now have a digital camera. Very old-school, a Kodak DC-200 with a flash and a 50-frame compact flash card. But we're going to need a port replicator; their computer only supports two USB outlets, and right now those are taken by the keyboard and the mouse. It'll be nice when we can get them a decent monitor, too.
The kids went out with friends for the evening, and so did I, leaving Omaha all alone. Poor Omaha. Apparently, she spent it doing chores. Y'know what I do with a couple of hours with the house to myself, no kids and no Omaha? A bath, DVDs, and things I describe only in friends-locked posts.
We've decided to give them Internet access-- email, IM, that stuff-- but we're going to give them a Mac and leave their computer in public view. That way they'll at least be safe from viruses and external attacks. We haven't made any decisions yet about putting a filtering proxy in the firewall, and we may never. Suffice it to say, it won't be because we're too lazy. The effort Omaha went through to get that G4 icecube rehabilitated and functional again was heroic.
Oh, and it also means that the girls now have a digital camera. Very old-school, a Kodak DC-200 with a flash and a 50-frame compact flash card. But we're going to need a port replicator; their computer only supports two USB outlets, and right now those are taken by the keyboard and the mouse. It'll be nice when we can get them a decent monitor, too.
The kids went out with friends for the evening, and so did I, leaving Omaha all alone. Poor Omaha. Apparently, she spent it doing chores. Y'know what I do with a couple of hours with the house to myself, no kids and no Omaha? A bath, DVDs, and things I describe only in friends-locked posts.
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