19-II-2006.
Revamping the house machine... not in the same tower box where zmajček used to be, but again in that one where the [mother]board is pulled out like a plek from the oven, which I got from Ricardo. So I quit the NJ2K and switched to HR (i.e. XP, which is hr when read as if cyrillic, and W is NJ when converted from juski cyrillic).
It mostly works as well as I expected it to work - i.e. few things may be tricked into working just like before, and some need to be reinstalled from scratch. That is, most of it you just doubleclick and it works. Of course, that's possible because I've long ago stopped installing things where m$ says, and rather put it in my own set of directories on dee disk, or kay, or whichever way the cards fall. Because the place where it says gets either erased completely, or is left stranded on a shipwrecked partition. Cleaner this way.
Over time I gave up on dee, kay, em, en disks... because in various configurations, when a thumbdrive (fleška :) or other insertable disk is added, the Windowses go bonkers and shuffles the drive letters, and all of a sudden the disk where I installed almost everything gets a new letter. On the other side I reserved the end of abeceda* for optical drives - it would usually be the X drive, and Y when I had two of them. So my work disk eventually became a Q drive (as it is even today, even though my disks don't have letters since long ago, but the 'ku' is still in the partition name). The directory where all the software used to be was named Q:\sopstver (v. house dictionary), and then, under it, by branches - databases, text editors, image processing etc.
This works for most of OpenOffice, Mozilla and the rest of the normal software, it finds where and how it was set up previously and just reads that and we're done in five minutes. It's everything by m$ which forgets literally everything, and never even allows you to install where you want to, it must go there, period. The hardest part is remembering all the wrong default settings and setting them right. Nope, there's one even worse, to find out which new thing they fucked up but can be reverted to normal, then finding there is that turned off. And the sad dilemma, whether to try to memorize that or to repeat the suffering next time.
Teaching Nina to drive. We sit in the corolla, then slowly cruise the area. She gets it all, handles the shifting, already knew the regulation... only that curbside parking she never mastered, but then she won't need it much around here. Lena went with us, so after the drive we went to the nearby mall (just a mile away) and buzzed around it.
I made a bunch of shots there, and this panoramix looked quite normal at first, when I did it in that canadian little app, but now somehow couldn't find that... so decided to redo it now (2024) in Hugin. It got confused with tiles on both ceiling and the floor, and the balcony visible on the left side... so it managed the way it managed. I almost like this version more.
I don't know whether we also went to a movie in the end, perhaps it was the last part of Star wars... Eh, we thought it was the last one. If that was what happened, I'm not amazed. The film got published last may, and if we waited this long to finally see it, no big deal, we weren't in much of a rush, no emergency, it will be re-run dozens of times, for years.
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* abeceda is the latin alphabet; azbuka is the cyrillic alphabet. Alphabet is the general name, keep that in mind. Well, nowadays it is, at first it meant the greek alphabet.
Mentions: house dictionary, Jelena Sredljević (Lena), juski, Majkrosoft (m$), Nevena Sredljević (Nina), plek, Ricardo Manuel Bariero (Ricardo), zmajček, in serbian
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