From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 23 Mar 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in article   
   , Adam wrote:   
      
   >Moe Trin wrote:   
      
   >> Adam wrote:   
      
   >>> I'm actually writing this on "helot" (my new-to-me laptop) in my   
   >>> hospital room using the hospital's public wi-fi.   
      
   >> Which distro?   Your Mageia setup was fine (nothing open) as I   
   >> recall.   
      
   >I forget why (I'm sure I explained upthread) but I replaced Mdv & Mga   
   >with CentOS and Debian and am using CentOS here (this laptop has room   
   >for two distros).   
      
   OK - your January nmap/netstat post showed eris running those, and they   
   had a few things open that didn't need to be.   Helot running Mandriva   
   had some possible problems bringing up the wireless.   
      
   >Maybe not 100% secure yet, but it connects to public wi-fi pretty   
   >easily.   
      
   Being paranoid, I'd at least look at the "netstat -anptu" output.   
      
   >> Kind of scary how RELATIVELY easy it is, no?   Rather useful thing   
   >> to have as well.   
      
   >At least now I know I can connect to them.  I'm now at a rehab (across   
   >the street from the childhood home of a famous movie director!) so   
   >that's 2 out of 2 public networks I've connected to.   
      
   My concern would be to see that I'm offering nothing unintentionally to   
   the world - but I do that with all of my workstation installs.   
      
   >> "Taz" didn't work out, and had to be returned.   
      
   >URI wasn't easily curable, or conflicts?   
      
   The URI more or less cleared up after about 10 days, during which she   
   was quarantined in the second bedroom which may have given her a case   
   of "cabin fever", but the problem was conflicts. When we released her   
   from quarantine, she went after Marg (who is quite passive) pretty   
   badly.  When Good Sam came running to see WTF, Taz was advancing on   
   him (and he wasn't backing down). A bit of a pity, as _otherwise_ she   
   was a nice cat.  We returned her, amending her resume to indicate she   
   needed to be an "only" cat (item was blank originally).  URIs seem to   
   be all to common, as Emma had one as well (to a lesser extent), and   
   when we got Marg, she also had one. Can't recall if Good Sam and Smokie   
   had one (checks the health records - wow, that was 10 years ago next   
   month - Smokie was OK but Good Sam had one also).   
      
   >> The replacement is a domestic shorthair named "Emma"   
      
   >Have things settled down yet?   
      
   Well, they're no longer over magnitude 5.0 on the Richter scale.  ;-)   
   There's a bit of adjustment going on, as each is settling in on their   
   "own" turf.  As I write this in the computer room, Good Sam is snoring   
   away behind me in the kitty nest in the window formerly "owned" by   
   Smokie, while Marg is in the top floor of a 6' tall kitty condo in the   
   family room which was Good Sam's second favorite sleeping spot, and   
   Emma is...  crashed in a sunbeam on a window platform in the guest   
   bedroom.  (All but the windows in the kitchen, dining room and second   
   bathroom have 15 x 45 inch platforms with rug covering - wadda yu mean   
   "spoiled"???)   
      
   >> She's _REALLY_ pushing Good Sam's buttons, but so far he hasn't   
   >> tried to kill her.   
      
   >Louise seemed to be under the impression that Allegra was a threat,   
   >even after ten years together.   
      
   Marg is still uncomfortable with her (and vice-versa - some hissing on   
   unexpected close encounters), but Sam finally said "ENOUGH!" and there   
   was fur flying followed by a "Break it up" spray from a water bottle   
   (aimed at both).    That seems to have ended (or at least really   
   reduced) the button pushing.   
      
   >>> Some sort of RI I think but particularly nasty, including a week or   
   >>> so in an induced coma.   
      
   >> Sheesh Adam, didn't your Mother tell you not to play with strange   
   >> bugs like that?  I'm sure your nephrologist did too.   
      
   >They didn't even /have/ 'pcp pneumonia' (that's what it was) when I   
   >was a kid, and the transplant center had me on one antibiotic that   
   >was supposed to prevent it.   
      
   That was in the back of my mind - had the meds been reduced since then   
   and if so, are they putting you back on?   
      
   >BTW comas are worse than nightmares -- at least after a nightmare you   
   >know it wasn't real.  I'm still sorting out "memories" from then.   
      
   The Facilities Manager's secretary went through that mess - some   
   thoracic surgery, but I don't recall details.  She complained about   
   both unusual memories, and the _lack_ of others - she was somewhat   
   aware of time passing, but there were a few blank pages she couldn't   
   fill in with anything.   
      
   When are you expected to be released and to what limitations?  The fun   
   here at the moment is "very high" tree pollen levels which the weather   
   guessers are suggesting will go down to "medium high" next week.   
      
           Old guy   
      
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