Here is the file we talked about — it is password protected. Use the link button below; if it doesn’t work, here is the direct link: http://www.zenhobophoto.com/rvhobo/wp-content/downloads/digging_wp.rar
On the road again…
Chris, Mai & Megan currently experiencing Ecuador
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Computer Blues Before Leaving for Peru
Friday, January 15th, 2010
I have, the last few days, spent numerous hours replicating WinXP OS on this Fuji laptop onto a VMware virtual system on the new Toshiba laptop. When finished, I will have backed up the Fuji, so I will FORMAT it and re-install a new WinXP system from the virtual system from the Toshiba laptop onto the Fuji laptop and everything should work, right?
BTW, I had lots of problems SENDING emails until I removed Kasperky anti-virus. When I installed it approx 30 days ago, everything was fine, then email sending just kept getting more and more problematic until I removed the program and everything is now OK.
Anyway, that’s what I’ve been doing, so I can have it finished before we leave for Peru.
Photo at right of Mai reading her classic novels from the internet websites. She’s really gotten into reading the English literature classics.
Updated theme and Rotating Header Image
Saturday, December 5th, 2009
I think that I’ve finally succeeded in generally having the ‘look’ that I want for this blog. I worked for days to figure out how to produce a ‘rotating header image’. Having been a programmer for many years, I can certainly understand why object orientated software with unit testing is now being produced rather than the old procedural software. WordPress PHP code is like spaghetti — very hard to follow and frequently problematic if one makes changes to the WordPress or theme code.
So, after pulling out my hair for several days, I purchased the updated theme and modified it to my liking, so I now have almost everything that I want.
Now I can concentrate on more photos of Ecuador and posts which describe what it is like living here. I keep meeting more and more expats which are moving here both because of the political/financial situation in the USA and the extremely moderate weather here, year around.
Posted from my iPod
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
I’ve worked very hard to change the blog’s theme. However, this theme does not have a changing header image. Might add some code to have a changeable image.
The above was typed/entered from my iPod, but it’s rather tedious. After posting the above, I added the photo which shows the WordPerfect icon in the middle row far right.
Hope you like it. Now to post this to the blog — wish me luck!
Internet Service in Cuenca, Ecuador
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009The internet company here in Cuenca, Ecuador which provides internet service to this apartment complex is ETAPANET, whose transfer rates and prices were translated into English by Google (transfer rates are in the ‘Continue Reading’ section).
So, it seems that here in Ecuador, you are paying almost $38/mo for a guaranteed 12.8Kb, $65/mo for a guaranteed 25.6Kb and almost $80/mo for 51.2Kb during peak hours. When are peak hours? Generally from 8:30am to 5pm or 6pm. Minus the 3 to 4 hours of electrical power outage every weekday and internet gets quite expensive here in Ecuador.
I had better internet service in Hue, Vietnam, 5km in the suburbs — 30Kb to 50Kb day and night.
What I don’t know is if you are charged the extra 12% tax in addition to the stated rates. All non-food products are charged an additional 12% tax at the checkout — in addition to the import tariffs charged at the border for imported goods.
It’s Been an Uphill Battle
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
Yesterday, I spent almost all day trying to locate open source software which would bypass iTunes for my touch iPod.
When a young lady from England requested some of the Spanish-learning MP3s which I had to be put on her iPod, I couldn’t do it because Apple’s iTunes said that her iPod was synced to iTunes on another computer and if i wanted to change anything, I had to delete everything and start again.
POed at Apple’s need to control everything through iTunes, I went surfing for an open source program which would directly access the mp3s on my iPod, bypassing Apple’s iTunes solution.
After many false starts and freeware downloads which were crippled software unless I purchased an upgraded version, I came across the following open source software which did exactly what I wanted — added songs directly to the iPod, exported selected songs and backed up all the songs onto the computer. If it sounds good to you, you can obtain SharePod, too. It solved my problems and I am extremely happy with it.
While searching for the solution, I inadvertently downloaded a program which spontaneously booted my system and prevented me from going into ’safe’ mode to fix the problem. Solution?
I spent most of today restoring my Fujitsu laptop back to it’s October 16th backup. I lost a few things, but I kept all my email because I put my email on a non-system partition.
Windows 7 Almost Did Me In
Friday, October 30th, 2009
The day Windows 7 was released, October 22nd, I purchased a light-weight Toshiba laptop with 2GB RAM and 320GB hard drive. It comes without a DVD unit so I also purchased a Plextor external DVD burner.
Why am I writing about this — because I’ve spent many hours during the last week working to solve numerous problems related to Windows 7 and Toshiba hiccups.
To get the Toshiba laptop to connect to the internet has been a major hurdle. The old Fujitsu laptop connected without any problems, but the Toshiba with Windows 7 would connect but not receive an IP number. So many things I tried to no avail — surfing the internet for solutions, updated drivers, etc.
However, today while changing the folder permissions, etc., I suddenly found the Toshiba connected to the internet. What did I change that made the difference, I really am not sure, but it now connects to the internet without any problems.
Even though I’ve spent all day today disk partitioning, installing software, backing up and finally getting the Toshiba connected to the internet, I feel tired but relieved that I seem to have solved almost all of my problems with the Toshiba. Now, Megan and Mai can use the lightweight laptop with a 5-7 hour battery life for Megan’s home schooling.
I’m also extremely happy because I’ve succeeded in installing Rosetta Stone v3 software with Latin American Spanish levels 1, 2 and 3. It is an excellent program to use when learning a foreign language. Read More
