Bollocks

40C and too hot for the wasps so they've set up home in my nice cool
shed. Pool is totally wasp free, but I can't get in the shed to put the
pump on. Don't want to eat leaves and dead wasps.

Ah well, cold shower instead.

Oh, and I've dumped linux mint in favour of vanilla ubuntu and
everything is mind-blowingly wonderful!

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We didn't even need the heater on last week, twas 35c and the pool was
around 23c.

A little "Whoa" when you first step in, but lovely and refreshing and just
right after 30secs of acclimatisation.

Pump is in the garage though - which is handy.

 

<ahem> Told you so.

 

Hell, you have a heater? If we had a heater I'd be in the pool all year
round. It does have a thermal blanket though, which means we can use the
pool comfortably from May. We had a dip on the 9th April this year
(wife's birthday).

In the first year we were in the pool in March. We've "aclimatised" now
and I don't uncover it until mid-April.

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I can't believe the difference in speed. Startup time is a tenth of the
XP box and things like Skype are up and running in a few seconds.

Another good move was resisting the temptation to add KDE apps. All the
basic gnome stuff seems ok.

Still would like a decent newsreader though...

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BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24
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You don't get on with Thunderbird, do you?

If you prefer Agent, it'll probably work under WINE, although some
purists might object.

 

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:52:37 +0200, Paul Carmichael wrote:

$ sudo apt-get install pan

 

So now you've lost the Linux Mint battle, your attention is now turned to
the Pan jihad, eh?

 

I'd be genuinely interested to know why you prefer ubuntu to mint, unless
you have an AMD 64-bit processor an can see a difference in performance
between the 32 and 64-bit versions.

 

Yep, I even ride one

 

Just tried Xananews. It worked, but then I remembered why I stopped
using it before (on w98). It keeps crashing and something called
Madexcept pops up and annoys the hell out of me.

Perhaps I'll try Agent next.

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MRO #24
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Been using Pan for ages. Keeps marking stuff read as unread and
generally I'm not too keen. Not too good at grouping stuff either.

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And a pushbike of some sort.
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MRO #24
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It probably wasn't just a mint thing. It was my first linux install and
I generally installed all sorts of junk. This now is tons faster and
frankly I don't see the point in the mint thing. What does it offer over
the normal ubuntu install?

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And a pushbike of some sort.
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24
OMF #15
UKRMMA #30

Ovejas y buitres:
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Quite. Although I've been been using pan for a while, I'm not a huge
fan. That said, I'll start being purposefully promiscuous with news
readers now that my killfile lives on my news server.

 

There's posh.

If I had a killfile, that's how I'd do it.

 

Oh its only a recent idea of mine to have one and it's geared towards
cross-posted groups and not individuals[1].

[1] Mostly, anyway.

 

Thanks for the reminder. Just been upstairs to the attic to soak the
nest they're building there with insecticide. Repeating over a few
days will get rid of it.

Woah! That's _way_ too fucking cold. I don't get in untill it's 26C.
Ours is currently around 30C.

We didn't bother getting it running until late April this year, as
Jude had a knackered knee, with Surgery on April 2nd, so wasn't able
to use it anyway. But generally, depending on our skiing plans, we can
use it from mid March.

We do have a heater, hooked up to the oil-fired house heating, so it
would be possible to use it all year round, but we're there so seldom
at weekends in winter it's not worth even thinking about it. Costs
would be quite significant. In any case, now we've got the place in
Engelberg we have use of an indoor pool (and solarium, sauna, etc.)
anyway.

Heh. Of course, we've had a retractable glass conservatory built over
it, which helps, otherwise there'd be no chance
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It's far less anal about proprietary drivers (has all the media codecs by
default) and more stuff 'just works' without having to go to the
repositories. Some stuff that does need getting is done automagically.
Two examples are the ATI and nVidia drivers (one click download, installs
and configures them) and samba (dowloaded, installed and configured the
first time you 'share a folder'). A big plus for many is ndiswrapper
already installed with a nice GUI interface called 'windows wireless
drivers': that can save a lot of heartache judging by the continual cries
for help in a.c.o.ubuntu. I also just love the mintMenu. Otherwise it's
probably more a 'look and feel' thing with me, it just seems to push the
right buttons.

 

Oh, right... I assume you're talking about specific groups, rather than
excluding posts to more than a certain number of groups, which leafnode
does as standard.

 

Yes, I am. alt.* is quite effective, for example.