Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Argh! I just spilled a whole mess of cooking oil (not hot, thank goodness) onto a suede pump. (And my skirt and my slip and my hose, but those are easier to clean.) Argh!

(Just phoned Sheepie to ask for advice, and she gave me some. Wish me luck.)

"In trying to understand the Linux phenomenon, then, we have to look not to a single innovator but to a sort of bizarre Trinity: Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, and Bill Gates. Take away any of these three and Linux would not exist." -- Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning was the Command Line

Despite being tired enough to spill oil on my favourite shoes, I had trouble getting to sleep (and staying asleep) last night. This afternoon I got bad news regarding some missing equipment. But there was some niftiness in between.

madbodger gave me a computer at Balticon. ( Musings and babblings about the setting up the nifty PowerMac 7500 )

Okay, what's the yellow jack? Red is right, white is left, yellow has an indistinct, kind of jaggy icon stamped into the plastic next to it. Looks almost sort of like a video camera if I squint at it and let my mind wander. Could it be? Nah ...

Okay, I plugged the composite-video output of the VCR into the yellow jack, and went hunting on the hard disk for an app that sounded like it might display/capture video. Found one. And all of a sudden there was the Channel 45 morning news in a corner of my screen.

WHEEEEEEEEEEE!

Gee, all of a sudden I've got all these ideas for projects that I need this computer for, that I hadn't been thinking of before I discovered the little yellow jack.

It is good to have friends.

Now I need to go install Solaris on one of the Suns downstairs, which I meant to do about a week and a half ago. And go to a hardware store for parts to build a bracket to hold the video camera my brother gave me several months ago (neither of my tripods is really up to supporting that much weight).