hardware issue -- update

[Alma J Wetzker]

dep wrote:
> quoth Matthew Carpenter:
> 
> | BTW-  How was the new SuSE computer received?  Did he like it?  I
> | trust the trip back was copescetic (if a bit sniffly)?
> 
> the new suse machine -- to bring everyone else up to speed, i took a 
> 2-gig athlon machine loaded with suse 8.2 to my sister and her two 
> children, a 10-year-old girl and 16-year-old young man for christmas -- 
> was instantly beloved. my niece got things figured out on her own to 
> the extent that she was giving her mom tech support; it went even more 
> swimmingly for my nephew who, of course, was interested in linux games, 
> so i'll have to locate some of those, oh joy.
> 
If you are looking for commercial games, I like www.tuxgames.com .  They have 
a pretty comprehensive list of the commercial games that folks like to play. 
The "nethack" games can be fun for a while.  I like Atlantik (a monopoly 
clone) and freeciv.  At 16, your nephew may be into the first person shooters, 
which I know nothing about except that the graphics make me nauseous and the 
concepts make me feel about the way you do with the flu.

> the trip back was actually worse than the trip out, in that the 
> ibuprofen wore off in four hours but the truck held five hours' gas. so 
> i had an hour of literally feeling my temperature going back up. which, 
> anyway, gave me the pleasure of enjoying it going back down again. a 
> pattern that, dammit, continues.
> 
Is there a rule that says that you must drive to the bottom of the gas?

> i'd go to the doctor to get diagnosed with pneumonia except that she 
> would likely tell me to go to the hospital, the place where people who 
> have pneumonia get really sick and then die. which is not in my current 
> plans for the year.<g>

I have spent the last two years tutoring nursing students (of which my wife is 
one).  I spent a little over five years as a paramedic, so I understand 
something of the medical system, I am scared to death of being in a hospital. 
  I think the better hospitals provide care that can be fairly described as 
VERY BAD.  The typical hospitals just don't bear thinking about.

     -- Alma