“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” - James Dean
Posted in Hardware, Software, Technology on May 31st, 2007
I made the decision to go back to the latest version of UBUNTU (Feisty). To get the LTS Version to perform as well as Feisty was just going to take too much time. While I can live without my scanner until the UBUNTU support team solves their problem with XSane, I can’t live without my [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on May 31st, 2007
I had some comments today that I lost. I was reviewing my spam and there were several valid comments related to the new visa. I marked them as non spam and then hit the wrong button and they got deleted as spam.
If you left a comment and it didn’t get posted, do it again and [...]
Posted in Hardware, Software, Technology on May 31st, 2007
Well I am sort of up on UBUNTU 6.06. This is sort of a “One step forward and 3 steps back”. I am up with all of the files I had on the previous UBUNTO version so that part is good. Now I have to go through all the hassle of getting FireFox to have [...]
Posted in Asides on May 31st, 2007
Support bacteria. They’re the only culture some people have.
Posted in Hardware, Software, Technology on May 30th, 2007
After spending a few days studying what to do to get my scanner operational, I have decided that the simplest plan is to install the Long Term Support version of UBUNTU. I have researched the version and the documentation says that my scanner is supported.
At the present I am downloading UBUNTU version 6.06. When the [...]
Posted in Businesses on May 30th, 2007
Several times since I have been here in David, I have needed to have a battery replaced. The best and most reasonable store I have found has been El Marquez.
I have always been treated honestly and fairly and the service has been very quick. If he can’t do the job, he will tell where [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on May 30th, 2007
I have had a little more time to think about the new Tourist Visa changes since yesterday and now that my initial shock has passed, I am trying to look at it objectively. The Panama Guide has an interview with Lic. Tomas Garcia Tobar, the National Sub Director of Panama’s Department of Immigration regarding the [...]
Posted in Asides on May 30th, 2007
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
Posted in Panama Journal on May 29th, 2007
A Chiriquí Chatter reader sent me the following link. If you are using the standard Tourist Visa to stay in Panama this is important to you. If you don´t read Spanish you may want to use the Google translation tools to read this.
Panama has changed Article 36 of Law 15 and the duration and limits [...]
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