Another Wednesday
Aug. 11th, 2010 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoLike most. I even had to drink coffee to try to keep awake this week.
I tried a naughty trick today. There's a circulation computer (used mostly for checking books in and out) that has been running Linux for nearly two years. It has KDE and is set up to look almost exactly like Windows. People used it for months without complaining, then the word got around that it had Linux and complaints started coming in. "It's just not the same." "I can't make it work." "It's too hard to use." Now I have to point out the fact that our primary library system application is written in Java and looks exactly the same whether you're in Linux, Windows, or even FreeBSD or Solaris. Most of the rest of what they do on that machine is done in Firefox, which also looks exactly the same regardless of environment.
Anyway, I had a newer machine, a bit faster, with which to upgrade that location. Unlike the one that has been there, this machine has a valid Windows XP license, even though it has been running Linux for several years. So I wiped the HD and put Windows XP back on it. Swapped it without saying a word to anyone. The first one who starts in again with "Linux doesn't work" or "I can't use that machine" is going to be skewered with a card catalog rod and beaten with a flyswatter until they cry uncle.
County fair is on in the next county to the west. One of the things they feature is big draft horses. Clydesdales. Belgians. Percherons. I don't know if I'm going to be able to get there this year, though. There's too much going on.
Our farrier was supposed to come this morning but forgot and didn't show up. When we called him he told us that he spent a couple of hours yesterday putting special shoes on a foundered draft horse over in that county (not at the fairgrounds) who had developed his foot trouble as a consequence of Potomac Fever. Potomac has been rare around here, though there is a vaccine for it. We haven't vaccinated for it in years. I hope it isn't going to start increasing. They say it is spread by Mayflies rather than mosquitoes or horse to horse contact. We haven't had very many Mayflies here either, but Gary says he saw some just last week.
Hay should be coming this weekend.
And now, to bed, I hope.
I tried a naughty trick today. There's a circulation computer (used mostly for checking books in and out) that has been running Linux for nearly two years. It has KDE and is set up to look almost exactly like Windows. People used it for months without complaining, then the word got around that it had Linux and complaints started coming in. "It's just not the same." "I can't make it work." "It's too hard to use." Now I have to point out the fact that our primary library system application is written in Java and looks exactly the same whether you're in Linux, Windows, or even FreeBSD or Solaris. Most of the rest of what they do on that machine is done in Firefox, which also looks exactly the same regardless of environment.
Anyway, I had a newer machine, a bit faster, with which to upgrade that location. Unlike the one that has been there, this machine has a valid Windows XP license, even though it has been running Linux for several years. So I wiped the HD and put Windows XP back on it. Swapped it without saying a word to anyone. The first one who starts in again with "Linux doesn't work" or "I can't use that machine" is going to be skewered with a card catalog rod and beaten with a flyswatter until they cry uncle.
County fair is on in the next county to the west. One of the things they feature is big draft horses. Clydesdales. Belgians. Percherons. I don't know if I'm going to be able to get there this year, though. There's too much going on.
Our farrier was supposed to come this morning but forgot and didn't show up. When we called him he told us that he spent a couple of hours yesterday putting special shoes on a foundered draft horse over in that county (not at the fairgrounds) who had developed his foot trouble as a consequence of Potomac Fever. Potomac has been rare around here, though there is a vaccine for it. We haven't vaccinated for it in years. I hope it isn't going to start increasing. They say it is spread by Mayflies rather than mosquitoes or horse to horse contact. We haven't had very many Mayflies here either, but Gary says he saw some just last week.
Hay should be coming this weekend.
And now, to bed, I hope.
