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How Ryan got his name
Hihi Kitties,
I am Ryan, newly of the house of Williams and I put up some photos of mineownself showing off some of my skills, which prompted my Hooman to give me da nayme of Ryan. Prepare to be amayzed and point your browsers to : http://www3.sympatico.ca/fred.williams2/Web001.html At first they thought I just was going after the flashing lights, but I hav acktchewally come running in from the other ruum when I heard a football, (soccer), game on the TV to play along. Today I helped Manchester United beat Southampton. -- Regards, Fred (Remove FFFf from my email address to reply, if by email) |
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Fred wrote: ClowderCat wrote: Fred wrote: ok Da sekretary is goin to mayk one rsponse here. Just fur effichency. We just figured out how to do that too!!!! We just started using google for newsgroups. Well whatewffer werks fur yu. We had to start using google because we couldn't post from our other newsgroup account! Hi Ryan. Thanks. Mom said that I'm handsome too! And well she should! That's what I think too. You're very handsome too. Do you have any pictures of your face that we can see? Uh jusrt a minut, I'll check... Hmmm hm hm Hmmmmmm, ... Yeah, but dey has to be scanned. I'll give da Sekratary da orders and maybe by tomorrow we'll haf sumthin tu sho tu. OK. We like looking at pictures of cats here! I figure that you're kind of young and still learning things. I guess, but I'ze already passin my Hooman on sum things, like I know when to wake him up in da mornin and I'ze as good as an alarm clock, cuz I get the right time effurry day and I won't let him get away wif any offer sleepin. Clowder is sumthin neither me nor my secretary had herd of befur. Clowder is a really old word. It isn't in some dictionaries any more! We're not allowed to get mom up in the morning. We sometimes even let her sleep until 11 am on Saturday! Mom uses the pictures screensaver that comes with windows XP now!!! So we get to watch pictures of us and all of our friends! Ooooo, my hooman dusn't like XP nor Micro$oft much. We runs Linux and luvs it. Mom tried putting Linux on a computer one time and couldn't get it to run. She had a dual OS and only Windows worked. She's rather not use Micro$oft products, but she has to at work! Do you think we should start a kitty football or soccer team? Oh Clarence, It would be funfun, butid I don't know ifn I gots da time, and ders dat Sekretary problem thingy, as usual. Ifn cats aren't tuu strict about da attandance I might be able to partissipayte That's too bad. Human secretaries are so unreliable!!!! We use a telepathic interface here because mom was censoring our email and posts! Do you want me to install one on your computer? Well,... I don't know. What would that mean fur us? It would mean that your human wouldn't have to type for you and you wouldn't have to worry about him spelling this right and stuff like that!!! Hey Ryan, why is your human signing your post???? Oh da dumb hooman furgot tu put my name on da post!! Honestly good help is so hard tu find these days! He'll get it right this tyme, iff'n he knows whats gudgud fur him. We've noticed that it's hard for us kitties to find a good and reliable secretary. They're too independent and stubborn! I notice that he got it right this time! -- Regards, Ryan and his Hooman, Fred frum Catnada [Remove FFFf from my email address to reply, if by email] Clarence |
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Hooman note:
With Ryan's permission, I just want to mention that I'm surprised there is no GPS program under Linux that would interface with your GPS directly. Which distribution of Linux do you have? True, Wine is not exactly bug free,(;-)) yet. I'm looking around for a new distro myself. There might be - I haven't had much time to go searching recently. I know that a lot of sources offer map files (mostly cleaned-up Tiger-line files), so it would make sense for someone to make a GPS program available that would make use of them. Next time I get home (Christmas) I'll see what I can find. Here in the truck I'm running Fedora Core 2 - I want to get familiar with the SELinux enhancements. At home I still run RedHat 8. Though I do occasionally boot into FreeBSD. Dan |
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ClowderCat wrote:
Clowder is a really old word. It isn't in some dictionaries any more! I believe "maulkin" is an old word for "cat," while we're on the subject. We're not allowed to get mom up in the morning. We sometimes even let her sleep until 11 am on Saturday! Oh. You're very liberal with your hooman. We get fed first thing in da mornin, so it's furry impiortant tu us to get him going. Sometimes we lets him have a nap in da afternoon. We know how important napping can be. Ooooo, my hooman dusn't like XP nor Micro$oft much. We runs Linux and luvs it. Mom tried putting Linux on a computer one time and couldn't get it to run. She had a dual OS and only Windows worked. She's rather not use Micro$oft products, but she has to at work! Mmmmm. Sum hardware companies are linked to M$ and have proprietary drivers so they don't allow their drivers to be run on Linux, but gradually it's being changed. You can get a Linux system for free, but not all of them. Nevertheless, if you have a business and have to by dozens or hundreds of software licecnces, a free version of Linux could save a lot of tunas, and it's more reliable and definitely more secure. That's too bad. Human secretaries are so unreliable!!!! We use a telepathic interface here because mom was censoring our email and posts! Do you want me to install one on your computer? Well,... I don't know. What would that mean fur us? It would mean that your human wouldn't have to type for you and you wouldn't have to worry about him spelling this right and stuff like that!!! I'ze not sure I want someone accessing my thoughts, effen somone as reliable as anuffer kitty. Regards, Ryan and his hooman, Fred frum Catnada [remove FFFf frum the email address to reply, if by email.] |
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Fred wrote: ClowderCat wrote: Clowder is a really old word. It isn't in some dictionaries any more! I believe "maulkin" is an old word for "cat," while we're on the subject. Mom said it's possible but she hasn't heard it before! We're not allowed to get mom up in the morning. We sometimes even let her sleep until 11 am on Saturday! Oh. You're very liberal with your hooman. We get fed first thing in da mornin, so it's furry impiortant tu us to get him going. Sometimes we lets him have a nap in da afternoon. We know how important napping can be. We sometimes let mom nap during the day because we can nap with her. For some reason mom refuses to feed us as soon as she gets out of bed. She does other things first! Ooooo, my hooman dusn't like XP nor Micro$oft much. We runs Linux and luvs it. Mom tried putting Linux on a computer one time and couldn't get it to run. She had a dual OS and only Windows worked. She's rather not use Micro$oft products, but she has to at work! Mmmmm. Sum hardware companies are linked to M$ and have proprietary drivers so they don't allow their drivers to be run on Linux, but gradually it's being changed. We have a Micron computer here. And some of the drivers are on the motherboard, like the sound driver! You can get a Linux system for free, but not all of them. Nevertheless, if you have a business and have to by dozens or hundreds of software licecnces, a free version of Linux could save a lot of tunas, and it's more reliable and definitely more secure. Mom downloaded the Linux she installed. She said that she's surprised that her employer is using Windows and MS Office! That's too bad. Human secretaries are so unreliable!!!! We use a telepathic interface here because mom was censoring our email and posts! Do you want me to install one on your computer? Well,... I don't know. What would that mean fur us? It would mean that your human wouldn't have to type for you and you wouldn't have to worry about him spelling this right and stuff like that!!! I'ze not sure I want someone accessing my thoughts, effen somone as reliable as anuffer kitty. Regards, Ryan and his hooman, Fred frum Catnada [remove FFFf frum the email address to reply, if by email.] No other kitty would be accessing your thoughts with a telepathic interface. You have to send your thought to it deliberately for it to hear them. They also work for you to be able to sometimes hear your human's thoughts if they're strong enough or have some keywords that you program into the interface, like TED and clip claws and food! BTW, do you live with other cats? Who are they if you do? Clarence |
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"ClowderCat" wrote in message
ups.com... I believe "maulkin" is an old word for "cat," while we're on the subject. Mom said it's possible but she hasn't heard it before! Maybe that's why a traditional name for a (gray?) cat is Graymalkin (pronounced GRIM-ul-kin). -- Anti Sandy, word/language freak |
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ClowderCat wrote:
Fred wrote: ClowderCat wrote: We're not allowed to get mom up in the morning. We sometimes even let her sleep until 11 am on Saturday! Oh. You're very liberal with your hooman. We get fed first thing in da mornin, so it's furry impiortant tu us to get him going. Sometimes we lets him have a nap in da afternoon. We know how important napping can be. We sometimes let mom nap during the day because we can nap with her. For some reason mom refuses to feed us as soon as she gets out of bed. She does other things first! Your mom is pretty clever I think, but fortunately we has Fred well trained! He lives alone and it's up to usses to keep him frum kitten lazy. Fur instance, last night my cat meowmy had to get him up and point out that the front of the piano was still off and sittin on da flor uv da liffin ruum. He'd been tinkerin inside da piano makin da strangest sounds all day and didn't seem furry happy about it. We each has tried a couple uv notes ourownselves, but da piano noise is just a lidle scary fur usses. Still we'z been lookin at da top uv da piano fur days, wonderin ifn we could gwet up der, but we hasn't jumped up yet, not knowin what we has to land on when we gets ther. It's within our reach, of course, but we'z careful. Diana, that's my cat meowmy, actually meowed and howled at da bedruum dor at about 4 in da mornin until Fred gott up tu see what was da matter. When she realized that he was going tu follow her, she wented right tu da piano and jumped up onna bench and looked worriedly at da kmissing front and walked back and forth. It was out of place, and she didn'rt like it, naturally. She asked him pouint blank, "Do you'z intend to leave it like that *all* nite?!? Fred assured her he did, not unkindly, nd wented tu feed Jetadiah, dat's our kitty in da OUT who usually feeds at da side door. He's a tough kitty whose been around a lot and refuses to come intu da IN. We touched noses a few times and he seems nice. maybe you've met him here once or twice? Ooooo, my hooman dusn't like XP nor Micro$oft much. We runs Linux and luvs it. Mom tried putting Linux on a computer one time and couldn't get it to run. She had a dual OS and only Windows worked. She's rather not use Micro$oft products, but she has to at work! Mmmmm. Sum hardware companies are linked to M$ and have proprietary drivers so they don't allow their drivers to be run on Linux, but gradually it's being changed. We have a Micron computer here. And some of the drivers are on the motherboard, like the sound driver! Ah. My hooman knows something about this. It's the "chips" that are on da motherboard. The "driver" fur each peripheral, like the sound hardware, (chips), ... tha "driver" is the program that makes the chips werk and it often comes off a CD ROM these days. Ifn a sound chipset iz on yer motherboard, then there's probably a CD that came wif it and wuz used to install the drivers fur the computer. These used to be all Window$ drivers, butthese days sum of the manufacturers, like nvidia which makes the "geforce cards" and so on, they don't release their drivers tu the public an' so Linux can't use them. Sum distributions uv Linux use generic interfaces and get sum functionality, but not effurry thing the hardware can do. So if'n it's a grphics kard, you might see da screen OK, but not get all da resolution you could,... dat sort uv thingy. Many peripheral manufacturers are makin their drivers public these days, because thenumber uv Linux users are growin fast and they wants to sell their hardware. Still M$ is big and powerful still and they contrtol some other companies and they sort uv hold the drivers back exceptin wif Window$ which is sort uv like holdin da hardware hostage effen after yous buy it to get you ta buy more and many hoomans feel this is not nice, effen fur hoomans, and they say nasty things about Mrs. Gates liddle boy Billy. But I digrress... You can get a Linux system for free, but not all of them. Nevertheless, if you have a business and have to by dozens or hundreds of software licecnces, a free version of Linux could save a lot of tunas, and it's more reliable and definitely more secure. Mom downloaded the Linux she installed. She said that she's surprised that her employer is using Windows and MS Office! There are everal Office Suites available on Linux and they're all frfree. Open Office opens all uv those M$ Office files and werks wif them, and I think da uffer ones do too. All da Officece functions have equivalents in Linux and it's not hard to change. Well, deependin where you're skill levels are at. Most hoomans get by OK, ifn thaeyre at all used to puters. -- Regards, Ryan and Diana an' Jetadiah and their hooman, Fred frum Catnada. [remove FFFf frum our email address to reply, ifn by email.] |
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Your mom is pretty clever I think, but fortunately we has Fred well trained! He lives alone and it's up to usses to keep him frum kitten lazy. Fur instance, last night my cat meowmy had to get him up and point out that the front of the piano was still off and sittin on da flor uv da liffin ruum. He'd been tinkerin inside da piano makin da strangest sounds all day and didn't seem furry happy about it. We each has tried a couple uv notes ourownselves, but da piano noise is just a lidle scary fur usses. Still we'z been lookin at da top uv da piano fur days, wonderin ifn we could gwet up der, but we hasn't jumped up yet, not knowin what we has to land on when we gets ther. It's within our reach, of course, but we'z careful. Diana, that's my cat meowmy, actually meowed and howled at da bedruum dor at about 4 in da mornin until Fred gott up tu see what was da matter. When she realized that he was going tu follow her, she wented right tu da piano and jumped up onna bench and looked worriedly at da kmissing front and walked back and forth. It was out of place, and she didn'rt like it, naturally. She asked him pouint blank, "Do you'z intend to leave it like that *all* nite?!? Fred assured her he did, not unkindly, nd wented tu feed Jetadiah, dat's our kitty in da OUT who usually feeds at da side door. He's a tough kitty whose been around a lot and refuses to come intu da IN. We touched noses a few times and he seems nice. maybe you've met him here once or twice? You're really smart kitties. We found out a long time ago that mom's untrainable. She refuses to do everything we tell her to do! Did your human finally get the piano front on? They can take forever to get things done sometimes. I don't think we met Jetadiah or Diana yet. We used to come here a lot and then mom quit letting us come. We're back now, hopefully permanently. I don't think you've met Chester and Nathan yet. They're cats and they live with me and mom. Ah. My hooman knows something about this. It's the "chips" that are on da motherboard. The "driver" fur each peripheral, like the sound hardware, (chips), ... tha "driver" is the program that makes the chips werk and it often comes off a CD ROM these days. Ifn a sound chipset iz on yer motherboard, then there's probably a CD that came wif it and wuz used to install the drivers fur the computer. These used to be all Window$ drivers, butthese days sum of the manufacturers, like nvidia which makes the "geforce cards" and so on, they don't release their drivers tu the public an' so Linux can't use them. Sum distributions uv Linux use generic interfaces and get sum functionality, but not effurry thing the hardware can do. So if'n it's a grphics kard, you might see da screen OK, but not get all da resolution you could,... dat sort uv thingy. Many peripheral manufacturers are makin their drivers public these days, because thenumber uv Linux users are growin fast and they wants to sell their hardware. Still M$ is big and powerful still and they contrtol some other companies and they sort uv hold the drivers back exceptin wif Window$ which is sort uv like holdin da hardware hostage effen after yous buy it to get you ta buy more and many hoomans feel this is not nice, effen fur hoomans, and they say nasty things about Mrs. Gates liddle boy Billy. But I digrress... Mom knows about this stuff too, but we've been reading computer manuals and using the computer when mom's not here so we know more than she does. There are everal Office Suites available on Linux and they're all frfree. Open Office opens all uv those M$ Office files and werks wif them, and I think da uffer ones do too. All da Officece functions have equivalents in Linux and it's not hard to change. Well, deependin where you're skill levels are at. Most hoomans get by OK, ifn thaeyre at all used to puters. -- Regards, Ryan and Diana an' Jetadiah and their hooman, Fred frum Catnada. [remove FFFf frum our email address to reply, ifn by email.] Mom has seen a couple of the Office Suites for Linux and has a copy of Open Office for Windows. We've been using it to write our autobiographies! Clarence, with Chester and Nathan watching |
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ClowderCat wrote:
You're really smart kitties. We found out a long time ago that mom's untrainable. She refuses to do everything we tell her to do! We can gets away wif just about efferyfang. I'ze been trying tu get Fred to allow me to use his shin as a skratchin post, but he whines so pitifully I duzn't do it fur furry long. He let out a real scream when I jumped to his rear end when he wuz at da kitchen sink tonite. I guess I kind a surprized him. Who knew he was da sensitive type? Did your human finally get the piano front on? They can take forever to get things done sometimes. Yeah. It's back on and da piano sounds muchmuch better. Mum, (my cat meowmie, Diana) singz along, but only wif da Brahms intermezzo. Strange she duzn't seem to care as much fur Chopin or Debussey or Bach. Da Brahms iz really beautiful harmony, maybee that'z got sumthin ta du wif it. I don't think we met Jetadiah or Diana yet. We used to come here a lot and then mom quit letting us come. We're back now, hopefully permanently. Jetadiah has been coming around fur years, but won't kom inta da IN. Some years ago Fred built a box lined wif styryfome and blankets and puted it under da werkshop where it's already warmer then outside. Jetadiah goes in there when it's really cold. He wuz caught once when his arthritis and the cold made hime limp on 3 legs, and Fred took him tu da vet fur a klean bill uv health and shots and got fixed what wasn't broken. Jet has grreat fur this time uv year. He can be out at 20 deg. F and still be OK, cuz he dusn't effen bother to go to his box, but when it gets really kold, (Fred has seen -41 here, pick either scale), and Jetadiah comes out in da morning looking as happy as a clam and also lookin fur brekfast. So da box werks fur him. I don't think you've met Chester and Nathan yet. They're cats and they live with me and mom. Oh nice. Hihi to them as well. Mom knows about this stuff too, but we've been reading computer manuals and using the computer when mom's not here so we know more than she does. Smart Kitties you all are. Gudgud fur yu. Mom has seen a couple of the Office Suites for Linux and has a copy of Open Office for Windows. We've been using it to write our autobiographies! Gud reading I'm sure. Will it be published sum day? Will we have a chance to read it? Clarence, with Chester and Nathan watching -- Regards, Ryan wif Diana, Jetadiah and their hooman, Fred. [Remove FFFf frum our email address to reply, ifn by email]. |
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Fred wrote: ClowderCat wrote: You're really smart kitties. We found out a long time ago that mom's untrainable. She refuses to do everything we tell her to do! We can gets away wif just about efferyfang. I'ze been trying tu get Fred to allow me to use his shin as a skratchin post, but he whines so pitifully I duzn't do it fur furry long. He let out a real scream when I jumped to his rear end when he wuz at da kitchen sink tonite. I guess I kind a surprized him. Who knew he was da sensitive type? All humans seem to be really sensitive to our claws. Mom keeps clipping mine because I like to give her shoulder massages every night and I like to include some acupuncture with it. She said the acupuncture hurts her too much. I tried to climb mom once when I was a baby and she didn't let me! Did your human finally get the piano front on? They can take forever to get things done sometimes. Yeah. It's back on and da piano sounds muchmuch better. Mum, (my cat meowmie, Diana) singz along, but only wif da Brahms intermezzo. Strange she duzn't seem to care as much fur Chopin or Debussey or Bach. Da Brahms iz really beautiful harmony, maybee that'z got sumthin ta du wif it. We don't have a piano or any other musical instrument. And mom said that she doesn't listen to much classical music. She also said that the only musical instrument she knows how to play is the CD player! I don't think we met Jetadiah or Diana yet. We used to come here a lot and then mom quit letting us come. We're back now, hopefully permanently. Jetadiah has been coming around fur years, but won't kom inta da IN. Some years ago Fred built a box lined wif styryfome and blankets and puted it under da werkshop where it's already warmer then outside. Jetadiah goes in there when it's really cold. He wuz caught once when his arthritis and the cold made hime limp on 3 legs, and Fred took him tu da vet fur a klean bill uv health and shots and got fixed what wasn't broken. Jet has grreat fur this time uv year. He can be out at 20 deg. F and still be OK, cuz he dusn't effen bother to go to his box, but when it gets really kold, (Fred has seen -41 here, pick either scale), and Jetadiah comes out in da morning looking as happy as a clam and also lookin fur brekfast. So da box werks fur him. He sounds like a real cool cat. And he's so lucky that he gets to be out! Where are you guys? It's so cold there! Are you at the North Pole? If you are, do you ever see Santa Paws? I don't think you've met Chester and Nathan yet. They're cats and they live with me and mom. Oh nice. Hihi to them as well. Hi Ryan. You're a handsome cat! - Chester and Nathan Mom knows about this stuff too, but we've been reading computer manuals and using the computer when mom's not here so we know more than she does. Smart Kitties you all are. Gudgud fur yu. Mom has seen a couple of the Office Suites for Linux and has a copy of Open Office for Windows. We've been using it to write our autobiographies! Gud reading I'm sure. Will it be published sum day? Will we have a chance to read it? We don't know when we'll be finished with it. Most of it is still in our heads because it takes so long to get the computer and software running when mom isn't here to turn it on and we have to make sure that it's off when she gets home from work. So, with naps, eating, watching out the window and our other activities, we only have about an hour of writing time every day! We also have to hide the files from mom so she won't read them and change them. We'll publish them when we get them finished, but we don't know when that'll be. Clarence, with Chester and Nathan watching -- Regards, Ryan wif Diana, Jetadiah and their hooman, Fred. [Remove FFFf frum our email address to reply, ifn by email]. Clarence |
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