I have a laptop that makes audio mis-behaviour once a print job is started. The printer is wireless. After usage I have to shut down, I cannot find the part of the printer thing that is causing the interrupt. Again, it thinks it's managing the printer by checking the cartridges and wanting to get me to order them online. Argh..

I'm not doing everything possible in ubuntu. Bill Gates shut off all my computers this week. Drives me nuts.

And I spent the last while with a mystery illness, found on the floor on top of my laptop with a huge fever. They said it might have been sinusitis. Might. Same day my wife came down with cellulitus in her arm and missed her first day of work in 25 years. We both had IV nurses (different ones at the same time LOL) come to the house every morning and hang a bag of antibiotics. She recovered and I sit and read. I lost quite a few days and 15 pounds, don't remember some crazy stuff. My wife recorded some rants of mine when I was in the fever and it's hilarious. I was bossing guys at a forest fire, (which I did). And it was half french half english. Wow.

I have bought and backed up clean versions of all my computer's o/s onto external drives and labelled them. I install the o/s, Open Office, firefox, and now Band in a Box from the external drive, then do the backup.

I wasn't going to put band in a box on my big system and the two laptops, BUT, I can't shake the fact that the software gets all stupid about the missing Edirol on 2 of the 3 systems. That goes to the Ketron. I got tired of factory settings and deleting the interface file only to have it come back when it never saw the Edirol usb thing.

I will comment that the new Bose system, which sat here for the best part of 2 weeks not being used, has the external control interface with 4 inputs, and a USB sound device. You plug it into the computer and the wav output goes to the Bose without using jacks. Works great, sounds great. I just need more energy...

I restore my daughter's computer once a month, she's 18 and I don't dare ask.....just do it.

At the end of the day I'd be tempted to start over, do the save, turn off the networking etc. I even pdf the print lead-sheets and print them from another computer, so as not to have some printer monitoring system running a background process saying "Hi" to my printers.

John Conley
Musica est vita