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Opera's next week: Hansel und Gretel - Turandot - Romeo et Juliette - Aida - La Boheme. All again from the Metropolitan.
Wednesday however we'll travel to Holland and in Holland there is no Sky Arts. Perhaps I can succeed to plan the recordings in advance and watch them leisurely after our return on Jan. 1st. I've never programmed any recording so far, so I'm not sure if it will work.
Turandot, Aida, La Boheme...I'd love to see and listen to them, they 'ring a bell' (doesn't Aida have a great and famous aria?), but only with Turandot we'll be home.
I'm looking forward, as always, to the long drive to Amsterdam, via Dover-Dunkerque-ferry. The longer the ride, the better I drive, I like to think. I love also our old work-horse Nissan Serena of '93. I sit high like a Queen. Only disadvantage is that it slurps petrol when going at 'decent' speed. So it will be a 525 km journey at 95 km/hr. Yet the workhorse is worth it: so much space, seven people can fit or a complete students-room inventory, it has done only 85000 miles in its long existence AND we were able to afford its purchase. :-)
Wednesday however we'll travel to Holland and in Holland there is no Sky Arts. Perhaps I can succeed to plan the recordings in advance and watch them leisurely after our return on Jan. 1st. I've never programmed any recording so far, so I'm not sure if it will work.
Turandot, Aida, La Boheme...I'd love to see and listen to them, they 'ring a bell' (doesn't Aida have a great and famous aria?), but only with Turandot we'll be home.
I'm looking forward, as always, to the long drive to Amsterdam, via Dover-Dunkerque-ferry. The longer the ride, the better I drive, I like to think. I love also our old work-horse Nissan Serena of '93. I sit high like a Queen. Only disadvantage is that it slurps petrol when going at 'decent' speed. So it will be a 525 km journey at 95 km/hr. Yet the workhorse is worth it: so much space, seven people can fit or a complete students-room inventory, it has done only 85000 miles in its long existence AND we were able to afford its purchase. :-)
I hate it that I don't know how to use diaeresis and so on. I mean "Aida" like written here looks pretty crippled. I used Gnome-applets before for those things and it worked easy and perfect. But now that Ubuntu has taken up that dreadful Unity desktop and I've been chased away to Kubuntu with KDE-desktop, I'm no more able to get the Gnome-applets to work. I feel very handicapped in my typing!
This must be Abracadabra to all the Win-users, but believe me, if you get Linux even a little bit 'in your fingers', it's all more than worth it. I've never looked back at least. I also hate that I always have to clean up the Windows-mess of my family-members for them: viruses, flooded caches, unrecognised hardware and what not. And that while my own 'Linuxes' never have any problem, except now with the desktop-switch. Attach a printer or a router and it works 'out of the box'! Virus? Never heard of! And that while I did not even use the slightest virus-protection in six years (sshhh!).
I'm all the more frustrated as today we've got a new printer - old one broke down after five years - and, gods, I've been spending hours already to get it recognized by Win7. But no. Win keeps telling there is no printer attached, no matter if we switch cables, ports or whatever. I'm going to try it on XP now. My own puters are sadly too far away from the printer to make a connection possible.
Sorry, my hobby-horse! :-)
Well, I must say this post is very much like a diary-entry, not really suitable for 'public use'. Nevertheless, it serves well as page-filling - give a bit of body to this still meagre journal. And, who knows, interest a passer-by in Linux. Though I guess I would have to use a different tone to properly advertise my favourite Operating System. :-)
Wishing Happy Holidays to All!
This must be Abracadabra to all the Win-users, but believe me, if you get Linux even a little bit 'in your fingers', it's all more than worth it. I've never looked back at least. I also hate that I always have to clean up the Windows-mess of my family-members for them: viruses, flooded caches, unrecognised hardware and what not. And that while my own 'Linuxes' never have any problem, except now with the desktop-switch. Attach a printer or a router and it works 'out of the box'! Virus? Never heard of! And that while I did not even use the slightest virus-protection in six years (sshhh!).
I'm all the more frustrated as today we've got a new printer - old one broke down after five years - and, gods, I've been spending hours already to get it recognized by Win7. But no. Win keeps telling there is no printer attached, no matter if we switch cables, ports or whatever. I'm going to try it on XP now. My own puters are sadly too far away from the printer to make a connection possible.
Sorry, my hobby-horse! :-)
Well, I must say this post is very much like a diary-entry, not really suitable for 'public use'. Nevertheless, it serves well as page-filling - give a bit of body to this still meagre journal. And, who knows, interest a passer-by in Linux. Though I guess I would have to use a different tone to properly advertise my favourite Operating System. :-)
Wishing Happy Holidays to All!