Archive for October, 2007
Wildfires Day 1
Oct 25th
First off, I commend everyone that is assisting in the fire fighting effort in California. Yesterday I was alerted that my unit was being mobilized to assist in the efforts. It is kind of funny because I just dropped off my car an hour earlier for warranty work that would take a couple of days. For those of you that do not know, my unit is in California, which requires some driving.
So after a little stress moment a very sweet family member let me borrow a vehicle to come out here.
We have been sitting around all day pretty much just waiting to be sent somewhere. Now I understand that a good part of the fires are under control but I do not understand why we are not being sent to help with the other fires. I was actually excited to get to do some proactive work but we have no activity going on.
Just my two cents worth of a gripe. On the other it is good to be with the guys again and laugh and joke around again, my favorite past time.
Print PDF files on Vista without Acrobat
Oct 18th
Vista is problematic, too much doesn’t work and if it does it usually costs money (yes Linux I hear you). In the past I have used PDFCreator (the free open source version) on Windows XP/2000 however it doesn’t work on Vista. So in search of a solution I found CutePDF. I just installed it and performed some test prints. It has worked flawlessly so far. So if you just need to print an occasional PDF and don’t want to shell out some dough take a look at CutePDF.
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