How did everyone go away from their desktops and favourite OS? Did everyone get frustrated by the in-law's windows box?
Anyone have any linux related gems to share? I got by taking my freeBSD laptop and both brothers-in-law had (wide open) wireless access points. Once I figured that i just had to turn WEP off I was away laughing! Even managed to install a whole heap of software when needed. At one point my sister-in-law wanted to transfer her photos from a canon camera to a computer, and then to a flash thumbdrive, to make room for more pics on the camera card. Could she do it on the local windows box? No way, despite the locals having a very similar camera - no drivers for the slightly earlier model of camera. No card reader. Never mind, just plug the camera's USB cable into my freebsd laptop, install gphoto2 and it was sorted. One place I visited for a couple of days I didn't have my lappie, so tried to do various things on the in-house windows machine, but my brother-in-law was hovering as I was about to install putty/pscp. Bugger. Luckily his Italian son-in-law had a Mac Powerbook with a very odd keyboard, and I was able to ssh/scp to my hearts content - well until the tide came in enough to swim. And the linux related gem? Well the gentoo penguins at Kelly Tarltons of course! Hope everyone had a good Xmas/New Year.
