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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Started conversation Sep 13, 2014
I feel like crap at the moment. 
I had an early start yesterday, but I was coughing my lungs up all day. I was planning to drag myself across in a taxi late afternoon to see Mother, but (thankfully) I got a 'phone call from my Sister saying they were in the process of moving her to Chalmers hospital in Banff. 
I say "thankfully" because I suspect if I had passed on what's ailing me it *would* have killed her. 
Dennis came round for a chat, but I wasn't much of a host, mostly just shivering in the corner. 
And i barely slept last night becausa of constant coughing fits, coughing to the point i felt sick. I'll try to find a duty doctor at dialysis today... 
I watched "Scott and Bailey" and a couple of rpisodes of "Hot in Cleveland". 
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woofti aka groovy gravy Posted Sep 13, 2014
Peet, I have report that Linux Mint 17 ("Qiana") is really cool. I've tweaked it to how I like it. Wifi, printer, everything worked out of the box. I downloaded the 64 bit MATE version.
I've got this Lucid PC in the Study which needs upgrading, but it's a custom built job and I'm not sure how to configure it once the OS is reinstalled because it's got a separate physical hard drive for data and an SSD for the OS. I might get them to replace the smaller OS SSD and just plug in an external drive for data.
Lucid is still the most elegant OS I've ever used, but this HP Spectre XT is the best machine I've ever used.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Sep 13, 2014
When you're configuring it, do manual partitioning. Put the /swap and / partitions on the SSD, but put the /home partition on the hard drive and *don't* format it. 
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