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I didn’t intend to go this long without making a new entry here, but I am glad to be back here to do so today. Circumstances have definitely turned around since last fall. I got my Jeep back a couple of weeks or so before Christmas and I haven’t had any additional problems with it since. My family and I had a very nice Christmas together and a couple of my aunts and an uncle who had been sick on and off recently have been feeling better lately.
More recently, my youngest son was experiencing what we thought was a rare side effect from a prescription inhaler that he had been using, but it could have been caused by something more serious. My wife took him to the doctor last week, and after some testing he verified that the inhaler was most likely causing him to have to use the bathroom very frequently. We are thankful that he probably doesn’t have a more serious problem going on such as diabetes.
I received, as a Christmas present, a USB 2TB external solid state hard drive that I am using with my old Toshiba Satellite laptop (but it can run on any computer). It boots into a version of Debian Linux and runs noticeably faster than the factory’s internal spinning hard disk that is still present in the machine. I also received some RAM that I installed into the laptop, which upgraded it from the stock 3GB to the maximum capacity of 8GB. I decided I wanted to upgrade that laptop rather than buy a new one.
Recently I have been learning to use a free and open source computer operating system called Haiku OS. I installed it on my wife’s old HP Pavilion dv7 laptop that originally ran Windows 7. I am having a lot of fun playing around with Haiku because it is very quirky and unique from most others I’ve experienced before. I would describe it as a cross of the old MacOS 9 and a Linux distribution. I don’t understand all of the history of Haiku OS, but I know it is an open-source operation that is based on (I think mainly in appearance and functionality) of a mid 1990’s Be operating system called “BeOS,” which was produced by a company called “Be Inc.” I don’t recall having heard of it until recently, but Be Inc. was created by a former Apple executive and the operating system was intended to compete with the classic Apple MacIntosh operating and Microsoft Windows operating systems. I don’t think BeOS ever gained a significant share of users in the market, but it did remain in development until 2001. The operating system that I am learning now, called Haiku, is a continuation of BeOS, but doesn’t directly share its coding as I understand. I think it just looks and functions like it, but it’s actually an all-new system. It is admittedly somewhat buggy though since it is still in a beta version state of development. It seems to be mostly stable though, and definitely usable.