Jared Ottley

Olivia went in for her check up….14.5 pounds! (UPDATE: Adrienne says, “..nearly 14.5 pounds. A couple ounces short.”)

Olivia was diagnosed with a mal-absorption problem. She was losing weight, no gaining. A basic failure to thrive. So we have upped her diet. Lots and lots of calories. It seems to be [...]

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Yesterday, I upgraded my laptop to SUSE 10. So far, so good. I did have to go hunting for rcd and its related accoutrement. I found it, but then was told today that I could have used the version built for 9.2. (or on the 9.3 cds) I know I could [...]

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Andrew’s transition into preschool has not been as easy as Taylor’s. (The first day of school Taylor just walked right in to class. No good-byes. No hugs. No tears.) Andrew has been very excited about going to school for sometime. And he is pretty willing to go to class. But once [...]

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I had planned to upgrade the servers and my laptop to SUSE 10 this weekend. But with Adrienne unexpectedly heading into the dentist yesterday, I didn’t have a chance to burn the ISO files. If I have a chance, I may head in to the office later today and and burn them.
I have [...]

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Adrienne has been studying like crazy and it is paying off. She received top marks on her first chemistry test. Highest in the class. I am quite proud of her and her efforts.
She also had her first cavity filled…which turned in to a root canal. They did half of it this [...]

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A while back, I posted about Open Carpet and OES. I thought I’d add some more about OES Linux.
On OES Linux I have already mentioned the novell-release file. There is also an SuSE-release file. In your distributions.xml file you would list it as:
<distro>
<name>SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server</name>
<version>9</version>
<arch>i586</arch>
<type>rpm</type>
<target>sles-9-i586</target>
<status>supported</status>
<detect>
<file source=”/etc/SuSE-release”
substring=”SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server” />
</detect>
</distro>
Why are [...]

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Within about a week, we, as a family, saw all six Star Wars movies. Taylor had seen at least one of them (I think episode 2) on TV sometime back. He has seen the marketing, toys, games, etc. So we thought it might be fun to see them…all. So we rented [...]

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I am watching the first in this animated series with the boys. I hope that this time I will be able to watch it all the way through. The boys have seen it several times now. In one of my first attempts to watch it, I was struck by what I then [...]

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