Heat Kills and Wine not Whine

Summer Solstice, which marks the actual beginning of summer, is still a few days off. Hah! Tell that to someone that lives in the Deep South. High 90s here today and it will be sweltering. Finally leaving AC 24/7. Too hot to sleep with fans and windows open. Still think air conditioning was the number one breakthrough invention of the 20th century. We sure couldn't have computers without it. Those huge mainframe rooms are also cold rooms. The local Comcast head-in is a huge block building with stack of various computer modules. Many are SCSI technology. They tend to run hotter than other hard drives. It's nicknamed the refrigerator. The techs that work in there wear long sleeves year round. There are jackets hanging beside the door. Several other "cold" rooms exist throughout the community at various commercial opeations. Well, you can put the beach house on that list too. With two web servers running 24/7, various workstations operational and my big, fat, sweatin' like a pig lardbutt, it has to be cool.

Researching Wine. No, not the grape stuff. Wine is an ancronym for Wine-Is-Not-an-Emulator. This allows you to run Windows applications inside of some non-Windows operating systems like Linux. It's opensource and free. There are other apps like Crossover, Cedega, etc., but they will cost money. Ran into Wine in the late 90s and wasn't real impressed with it. Ashy and I fooled around with it and after several frustrating hours it was shelved. Seems to be a different story today. Got to put a different video card in my Linux Kubuntu machine, but want to install Wine then Guild Wars. Have a Guild Mate, Ty Roneus, that has had some success with this procedure and am anxious to try it.

This project is lower down on the list. Increasing income, cleaning - as in housework, yard work, building a resident uber gaming machine (yes that project is over 6 months old and I have had ALL the parts that long too!), doing further work on the beach house truck...let's just stop this list. It'll go on and on. Still, it's interesting technology that is studied in those moments when drives are formatting, applications are installing, tests are being run or a general hammer throwing session needs avoiding. May be old and fat, but put a 4 lb. shop hammer in my hand and I can still be hell on something for 30 seconds or so, lol!

Stay casual out there. Please be careful. Watch that temperature gauge on your vehicle. Peace out.

"Summer has set in with its usual severity."
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge