Jazz n Stuff

New Orleans JazzFest has been deemed a success this year. Sad that Fats Domino couldn't play. He had taken ill and at Fats age one has to be careful. He insisted that there was a need for him to at least show up and apologize. Doctors said okay. Fats, no apology needed man. You are an inspiration to us all. So is Pete Fountain. He had a quad bypass in March and played this weekend. Dude can wail a mean clarinet. Both lost homes to hurricane Katrina. You can read more about it at Forbes.

In the process of re-installing the Mandriva flavor of Linux this article popped up and is very informative, especially to a Windows user. Translated from Dutch it gives the pros and cons about switching to Linux. There are very nice screen shots of both the desktop and the KDE utilities. Thanks goes out to Slashdot for a great link. You can read the article at coulier.org. After the "new" FreeBSD machine is brought online updating the Mandriva PC is next. Both will be functional and online for the LAN party and at least one of them will be wifi (wireless).

Have a casual Monday.

"Don't worry, be happy"
-motto of coulier.org