Luke’s Notebook

This morning, I drove over to Belleville to meet up with an attorney and hash out the specifics of a website I’ve been creating for him. I spent some time today working on the site, and I think I’m pretty close to completion.

While at the office building, I talked with Tim, the attorney who I’ve been doing computer work for the past few months. He had recently bought a couple of new computers for the office, and he said I could have his two old ones, since I seem to never have too many computer components.

The one computer is a Hewlett-Packard. It’s pretty old, probably something like a 333 MHz Celeron processor or something. The other computer, however, has an AMD Athlon processor running at 1.4 GHz. 1.4 gigahertz, by the way, is pretty good. My current desktop is 2.4 GHz, so that’s definitely respectable.

Neither of the computers were in working order, but I now have the Athlon machine up and running. I’m in the midst of installing Linux on it, and I plan to play around with it. I might even turn it into a server or something. I always have fun toying around with Linux, but I don’t have near enough knowledge of it to be very productive. Plus, it’s really easy to screw things up, too. It’s not as dummy-proof as Windows is… as I have come to find out. :-[

Well, it looks like the Linux installation is almost complete. This is about the fifth time today that I’ve installed it. Can you see that I’m not terribly proficient with Linux?

In other news, this afternoon Paul and John left to drive to Kansas City. This evening and tomorrow, they are taking the tests to become certified shorthand reporters in the State of Missouri. John is already an Illinois CSR, as well as an RPR (registered professional reporter, which is nationwide). I hope they do well!