Back to 50* today, Ubuntu SMB server, Proporta Cases

The weather is once again back to 50* F, and made all of the snow melt away.  Whee. I spent some of yesterday and today working on the old 466 celeron we have, installing a 40 gb harddrive and reinstalling Ubuntu 5.10. Ubuntu is a distribution of linux in case you did not know.  Linux is a free (open-source) operating system, and this distribution includes free alternatives to Microsoft Office (Open Office 2.0) and pretty much every other application you can think of.  It is a great distribution because everything works right out of the box.  It even picked up the old usb wireless lan adapter I had lying around.  Right now I'm ripping cd's to set up a Samba server on it for all of our music.  It is now to be our backup server for music, pictures and other assorted documents.   Today I worked on the Youth Handouts and sent out letters for the youth that want to go to Spring Thing this weekend.  Spring Thing is a youth rally for 6-12th graders that is in Scottsbluff, NE.  We'll be leaving Friday at 11am.  That will leave us plenty of time to get there and take our time.  I'm looking forward to it. Yesterday I recieved an Aluminum Case for my Zire 72 from Proporta.  I was offered to review a product of Proporta's as an Associate Writer for Palm Addicts, so I picked the aluminum case.  I recieved it yesterday in the mail, and it is a beauty.  I'll have a review that I'll post a link for by the end of the week on Palm Addicts.  I am very fortunate to be a part of the Palm Addicts team! Well, off to bed to be ready for a new day... In His Service, Isaiah