I ran across Evolution on Windows this week, it’s interesting. Installed, imported contacts, and about 1.5 gig of email and so far so good. The email import was not easy as I had to take the mbox files, bring them into Evo on Linux then copy the files to the Windows box. Importing on Windows consistently crashed if more than 1500 emails were in the folder.
Nice thing is if it doesn’t work I can just take the mbox files back to Thunderbird.
Update: Sept. 7 It was a fun week with Evo on Windows. The UI and functionality is pretty much identical to Linux however it is slower which is to be expected. Only a couple crashes but it’s time to go back to Thunderbird.
Realized after getting the fence up, underground electric that is, that some of where I had laid it out was not going to work. The original thought of not making a complete box around the house was quickly thrown out the window after the 6 hours worth of laying the line, which would make me half done. So I chucked that idea and took the easy route and did not double back the same way I came. The only reason for doing that would have been a clean access out for the boys. That and an extra layer of correction zone as the double back would have extended the no enter zone farther.
It only took a week for me to realize it needed to change. After a trip to friends that just moved close a light bulb was turned on for an efficient fix. About half of our acre is wooded and I originally did not take the fence there but this put the wire very close to a narrow path the dogs use at the back of the house. When friends had their fence installed the guy that did it used staples cause they have newly planted grass. Staples now that is an idea when you have layers of dead leaves, branches and other ground cover all over the place. So this weekend I extended the fence through to the property line which now includes the wooded area.
I still need to extend one side closer to the property line but that can wait. Of course if I would have thought about this from the beginning it would not be as much work, but it’s only time right !!! Once I move the last side I can turn up the strength increasing the zone size to about 6 feet, it’s at about 2 to 3 now. With any luck that will be enough to stop any run through and keep the warning beep on the collar. I’d hate to turn off the warning and go straight to correction.
So far I’m please but also regular excercise and socialization is also going to help. At the old house the neighborhood and privacy fence did not allow for much of that.
Only one post last month, kind of hard to believe I couldn’t find the time to note anything. But it wouldn’t mean nothing was going on, that would be far from the truth. Second month at the new house and we are settled in, I think. The boys, Roscoe and Copper, are enjoying themselves enough that a chance of chasing the cats next door had become to much. Not sure why it took so long for that urge to come out, they have been there all along. We knew the four foot fence wasn’t enough to keep Roscoe from jumping over, but we hoped. Between Roscoe’s roaming and Copper peaking over the top they needed something to keep them at bay…. and I didn’t think getting a cat of our own was a good choice. So an underground fence is now up and that seems to be keeping them under wraps. Now I’ve just got to finish a gate for them to get to the wide open space and hope they can use it. Kay had a trip to Chicago and some of her family came down. Friends moved to some new digs a few miles away and we found a park with some help of one of Kay’s co-workers.
Hockey for me is still twice a week and Volleyball started up again for Kay. A trip back home to IL and we are into August. In between the fun stuff work just keeps piling up and when I think I’m making a dent in the stack the design project I worked on over a year ago is now coming to Development. The Fedora system is now gone, but then again it was not going to last anyway as that system needs to be trashed before it burns up. Used the drive for another Windows setup, the wife needs to VPN into work and they use SonicWall where the company I work for uses Cisco.
I’m still muddling through the LCPI exam 1 book, as I have not convinced myself to dig in and get it done. But it is good to know much of what’s their so far is not new. In the end it’s all a personal thing anyway but not something I’m going to give up on. I learn more from FOSS in a day than I can with anything else in a week.
With any luck this month we’ll get the dogs use to the fence, I’ll get through the rest of the LCPI exam 1 book, more pics will get hung and the house will be more of a home every day. Now if only Can-Back can get the S10 camper shells into production…. that would be a good month.
