A really good friend of mine was driving home Thursday with her husband
and felt funny. Sort of disoriented, slightly dizzy, etc. They got home and
measured her blood pressure (BP) at 180/100. I thought it was dehydration.
Then she said she had trouble touching her nose with her left arm. That
sounded like a stroke. They were going to just monitor her BP, but the next
text message came from an urgent care clinic that he hurried her off to when
the BP approached 200/120. She should have exploded, and was terribly
frightened, more than I've ever known her to be.
She saw her regular doctor the next morning, and he gave her some BP
medication while the lab work is being done, which takes a couple of weeks.
So, we won't know what this is for a while.
That's scary, and the high potential for stress-induced coronary problems
was the overlying reason why I retired early. I'm constantly keeping aware of
things that get my BP up, and computers has been a serious one of late.
This Linux stuff is driving me up the wall. I was trying all day to take
care of some Paypal stuff all day but could not get connected to evilBay with
Linux on the coffee shop wifi, but I could connect with WinXP at home. Trouble
is that they are so slow with their new payment pages (mostly waiting for third
party graphics) that their server times out. I first thought it was the usual
evilBay dysfunction, then possibly a server/router problem in Loas Angeles.
But then I happened to notice that the URL window on the Linux machine just
said blank, whereas it should have shown the URL it was trying to reach. So, I
brought the WinXP laptop to the coffee shop, and everything worked fine.
Seems my wonderful virus-free Linux machine has a code in it's node. And
it appears that my two preferred antivirus vendors, AVG and Avast, no longer
have a Linux .deb version, nor does anyone else seem to have a free version.
Yet another Linux promise broken. So it's true: You do in fact get what you
pay for.
So, much to my disappointment I will go on a determined hunt for a Win7
installation package. The Linux DVDs are destined for the box with all the
stuff that needs to be incinerated. Three weeks wasted. To paraphrase Chief
Joseph: "I will fight Linux no more forever."
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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