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Grex > Health > #89: Sindi Keesan's Lymphoma Journal Part 3 |  |
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keesan
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response 174 of 475:
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Feb 7 18:44 UTC 2004 |
PLIP worked. I am going to test all our computers with the same hard drive
to see which one(s) will let me install Realaudio once I get a generic Xvesa
working. Realaudio complains if you don't give it 24-bit color and most of
our video cards won't do that with the regular X servers.
Regarding health, I slept until 11 and feel nearly normal. No news is good
news from now on. Jim is still coughing.
I think my hair has been continuing to grow in between therapy sessions. All
but a few of the hairs left from my haircut in September have fallen out but
there is a continuous 1/2" fuzz under that of new hair. I feel like I have
a crewcut. Not the thing for February. Maybe 1/4" not 1/2".
How fast does hair normally grow if you don't cut it? How many inches or
fractions of an inch would hair normally grow in 6 months?
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keesan
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response 175 of 475:
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Feb 7 20:04 UTC 2004 |
Scott gave us an unusually small P166 (which we fixed by moving the PCI video
card to PCI slot 1) and I have a spare 233MHz cpu but could not find any
jumper settings onboard, so I looked up the model number with a search engine
and got to J-Mark Computer Corp. page. Apparently made by jetway in Taiwan.
Could not find the motherboard manual (broken link) but I found a page of FAQ
written by someone who must have done this for the love of it. He wrote
practically a textbook about how to use modems with Windows, and what to do
if your 56K X2 or 56Kflex modem suddenly stops working at full speed (check
for noise on the phone line, shorten the line, unplug faxes, find out if the
ISP changed standards, if so download the modem upgrade, how to do that, what
is an IRQ, etc.). Anyone want the link? It is J-Mark, support. I think the
33K modem in there came with it. Maybe we can upgrade it. ISA.
Lovely little computer. FOUR ISA slots (and 3 PCI, none of which use the same
space as the ISA). Nothing blocked by the power supply. But probably no way
to change cpus as I can find only one jumper on the board (unlabelled). Maybe
this one also has CMOS speed settings and auto-recognized voltage settings?
Seems unlikely for something too old to take DIMMs.
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scott
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response 176 of 475:
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Feb 7 21:29 UTC 2004 |
Hair growth is 1/2" per month, according to my barber.
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keesan
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response 177 of 475:
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Feb 7 21:50 UTC 2004 |
When people used to get haircuts every week, that means they cut off only 1/8"
each time?
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ryan
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response 178 of 475:
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Feb 8 01:10 UTC 2004 |
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tod
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response 179 of 475:
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Feb 8 03:19 UTC 2004 |
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happyboy
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response 180 of 475:
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Feb 8 20:15 UTC 2004 |
i got a haircut in 1986.
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keesan
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response 181 of 475:
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Feb 8 23:39 UTC 2004 |
Can you measure how much your hair has grown since then? I hear it stops
growing and falls out once in a while, thus limiting maximum length.
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keesan
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response 182 of 475:
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Feb 9 03:36 UTC 2004 |
Since it was warmer and sunny this afternoon, I suggested walking to the
hardware store to get the rubber part for the cartridge and I practically
forced Jim to bring along the cartridge. We discovered they don't sell the
rubber thing. So he bought a matching cartridge for $13 but he thinks he got
the old one to stop leaking somehow. It is plastic. The store says to buy
Delta next time if we want to have it fixable without a lot of expense. Not
Kohler or Stirling.
On the way to Kroger's we saw some signs, mostly in Chinese, for a new food
market on both sides of Faz pizza. We looked in and one of the owners,
working on the wiring, was a former owner of Hong Kong Inn. They remodeled
the restaurant themselves too. The next owners redid it all. The Chinese
food store that used to be in this part of town moved way south so it is nice
to have another store nearby in case we run out of dried tofu.
Last time at Kroger's they would not give us a bag discount unless we brought
plastic bags. Backpacks did not count. So we brought 3 plastic bags and
bought enough grapefruits and carrots to fill four bags if we had had them,
and the cashier was in a rare good mood and gave us a 9-bag discount (he said
many people double-bag things) and while I was hunting for my Kroger tag he
pulled one out and said we could use the store tag. !
One computer and two more hard drives have what is acting like a linux virus
that won't go away when you reformat - once you put files from the original
hard drive on another drive you cannot do plip connections using that drive,
or install RealPlayer - it gives messages about translation tables and
keysyms, many of them, on a drive that used to let you install. Jim thinks
it is something to do with putting a drive set to single into a machine where
it should have been master and messing up some sort of tables. ????
Unfortunately we copied a few files from this drive (via DOS laplink pro) to
our super-large 20G hard drive with all my DOS files and Win98 installed as
well as linux and I would hate to throw out that drive and start over.
Help! The basiclinux list group has ignored my pleas for help so far.
Reformatting with fdisk or PQMagic did not help at all - we tried that on two
drives already before reinstalling linux. ;={
We ran F-Prot.
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goose
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response 183 of 475:
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Feb 9 14:24 UTC 2004 |
a "format" does not necessarily wipe everything off the disc. Could be a
problem with the MBR.
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keesan
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response 184 of 475:
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Feb 9 14:56 UTC 2004 |
The problem with installing RealPlayer appears to be that I forgot that I
uninstalled one of the X packages after installing RealPlayer, to see if I
really needed it, because I am using Xvesa rather than the complicated method
with servers and configuration. Realplayer still loaded, but apparently needs
the missing package to install. The package contains a database of keysyms,
which was what my error messages were about.
This does not explain why plip does not work but that is probably unrelated.
I should keep better notes. I found something about it needing the computers
to be the same speed, but ours only differ by a factor of 2. I recall that
when plip did work between the pairs in question, I would occasionally get
a message that looked like the timing was off and something needed to be
resent. We will transfer files via DOS and rename them back to linux.
I was warned not to fdisk/mbr unless I had no interest in the data. That is
the case with our two smaller drives.
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keesan
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response 185 of 475:
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Feb 10 01:24 UTC 2004 |
We looked more closely at Scott's old pentium computer with the 133MHz cpu
and you can vary the clock speed from 50......75 MHz and the core voltage,
but I cannot find more than one jumper to do that with unless I remove most
of the innards. Small cases have that drawback. We got his 266MHz Gateway
board working in a case from a dead Compaq and installed Realaudio on a test
drive and got that drive working in a computer where my regular linux
installation won't install Realaudio and it appears the problem is that I hae
upgraded the runtime libraries but not the compiler libraries, because I am
trying to compile something that will work without an upgraded library. It
got to the point of not compiling 'tic' (terminfo compiler). I first tried
with the Slackware 8.0 precompiled binary and something was missing. I may
try the larger 8.1 binary for the same version of ncurses. I have been trying
for about 2 months now to compile lynx and first had to compile openssl and
zlib. It required adding a few programs from other packages that are in
busybox, but are incomplete.
I have stopped coughing, and am not using many handkerchiefs. My hands no
longer hurt or look blue. The pains in three regions of my abdomen are
currently not paining me. My legs are still wobbly but I can feel my feet.
My tongue does not hurt. My eyes and the corners of my mouth are not exuding.
My hair is not falling out that I can notice. Things don't taste too
terrible. Life is good. It still hurts to sit and I still have hot flashes
but maybe not quite as often.
Jim's housemate called to tell him he was offered another computer so Jim
finally got around to fixing the one he no longer needed. After my PET scan
maybe he can start to concentrate on working on his own house for a while.
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cow
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response 186 of 475:
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Feb 10 01:27 UTC 2004 |
WASSSSSSUP. Just testing this out. I love messing around. Mary Xmas.... Even
though it is way past that time again. Later,
-Cow
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naftee
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response 187 of 475:
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Feb 10 01:50 UTC 2004 |
Later!
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scott
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response 188 of 475:
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Feb 10 04:49 UTC 2004 |
I don't recall a small Pentium computer....
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boltwitz
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response 189 of 475:
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Feb 10 04:53 UTC 2004 |
Jim made one out of chilled vodka.
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keesan
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response 190 of 475:
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Feb 10 13:48 UTC 2004 |
CCS case, J-Mark board, three round buttons in front, video problem solved
by moving the PCI card to slot one, 133MHz, you kept the hard drive with
Caldera Linux on it but gave us the two Caldera books and the CDs.
We have put together one of the computers from Leeron for jep to use with
linux. They all have DIMM slots, which makes it cheaper to add lots of RAM.
This one won't take MMX cpus. You can get a used 200MHz MMX cpu from MCRS
for $7. It won't take the faster Cyrix cpu we wanted to put in because the
Cyrix is 150MHz, Cyrix cpus cannot do 2x the clock speed, and the clock speed
on this board is 50,55, 60, or 66. Some boards will do 75 or 83, but those
did not have DIMM slots. It will take an Intel 200 if it is no MMX. Jep is
getting this one because the downloaded motherboard manual cannot be read with
ghostscript (it does not do encrypted pdf files, in DOS or in my older linux
version) and some idiot also decided to decorate every page with a bunch of
colored squares at the top so I cannot print it except on a printer that can
do color. I can print it even if the color cartridge is removed, but not on
my HP 500 or my dot-matrix printer, after converting from pdftops (because
that program, for DOS but not for linux, will do encrypted pdf files). What
is the purpose of encrypting a motherboard manual? From Taiwan?
Most of our other computers are also 133MHz and we could find the motherboard
manuals for only two of them, neither of which takes DIMMs. Some boards only
go to 133MHz maximum (starting at 50 or 75), others go to 200 if you can find
a non-MMX cpu.
Today I have another cold, I think. Four colds since September. I would
blame this on my low immunity but Jim has got all but one of them first, and
just about as bad, other than the cough which is due to the drug-related
pharyngitis.
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keesan
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response 191 of 475:
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Feb 10 15:41 UTC 2004 |
Back to topic. My friend from Vermont (who I met while at a Russian summer
school in her village of 4000), is staying with her daughter in Florida for
the winter. Her daughter is being treated for stomach cancer. The two of
them usually have fun together going places, but her daughter was not up to
going out dancing for New Year's, she had nosebleeds (probably low platelet
count). I still don't have the strength to go out dancing even without
nosebleeds, and I did not even have surgery. They tried to find her a
dancing partner on the internet but they were all much too young, nobody over
52. My friend writes she is getting bored, nothing to do, her daughter is
doing all the cooking and housework. So I wrote suggesting that she be
allowed to cook and clean and give her daughter a much-needed rest.
Jim is still doing the cooking around here, and an occasional cleaning.
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rcurl
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response 192 of 475:
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Feb 10 18:33 UTC 2004 |
There are web sites for seeking partners with whatever combination of age,
interests, and locations desired. Is it one of those she used? My brother
answered a newspaper advert from a woman who was seeking a companion
of like age - in their 60's - and they have now been together for ten years
or so. It apparently *can* work.
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tod
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response 193 of 475:
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Feb 10 18:38 UTC 2004 |
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keesan
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response 194 of 475:
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Feb 10 18:52 UTC 2004 |
The problem might be a shortage of 85 year old healthy men who like to go
dancing and live in her area of Florida. She said the neighbors had ham hocks
and blackeyed peas for New Year's. It does not sound like a tourist area.
Her second husband was 12 years younger than her. She outlived him too.
I think she should have gone dancing with one of the youngsters. She has been
washing the dog to have something to do.
My friend writes that back in Vermont she has 5 boyfriends and life in Florida
is dull. But warmer.
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tpryan
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response 195 of 475:
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Feb 10 19:11 UTC 2004 |
Try for some medical support groups.
Check out visiting nurses assoc. Not only to get a nurse to
visit on a regular basis (which can give the daughter a break), but
to network to other things.
See if she can make 'day vists' to a retirement multiple level
or care facility. Even if it is to go and play cards, or maybe help,
she will meet plenty.
Oh, come on! Even Daytona Florida has it's share of 85 year
old men.
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klg
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response 196 of 475:
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Feb 10 19:41 UTC 2004 |
Visit funeral parlors.
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keesan
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response 197 of 475:
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Feb 10 19:57 UTC 2004 |
I don't think my friend wants to meet men who need medical care. Her daughter
seems to be doing okay taking care of herself and her mother, who writes that
she is getting too pampered. She has never mentioned liking to play cards.
She likes to go hiking and swimming and dancing. But I will suggest that she
volunteer some place if she is still bored since her daughter does not have
the energy to do things they usually do while visiting.
Tim, how is your mother doing at her new place?
A friend writes that his mother still hates being in a nursing home. They
have taken away her junk food because her diabetes is not under control.
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rcurl
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response 198 of 475:
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Feb 10 20:35 UTC 2004 |
Florida is a terrible place for elderly women to find male companionship.
The male/female ratio is pretty low.
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