I’m Anne Wilson.\u00a0 My life is fairly evenly split between my work with KDE, where I’m known as annew, and my family where it could be said that I ‘manage’ four generations.\u00a0 Each generation has its needs, and three of the four generations use me for computer technical support.\u00a0 My mother, now 91, refuses to have anything to do with computers, which is a blessing \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
So what about my time away from the computer?\u00a0 Well, there’s not as much of it as there should be, for a start.\u00a0 I would list my interests as gardening, sewing and embroidery, music and reading, but in truth very little time goes on any of them except reading, which is mostly last thing at night and first thing in the morning – and yes, even some of that goes on reading my 3 computer magazines each month. In 2010 I joined a Creative Needlework group. \u00a0For all that I enjoy my KDE work, I do need a creative outlet to keep me sane \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
It’s almost 14 years since we first set up a family LAN, and making changes to it is fraught with problems.\u00a0 The house was once a farmhouse, and was built over a period estimated to be around 1500-1790, in stages.\u00a0 Consequently it has walls 30″ (90cm) thick on the oldest part.\u00a0 The walls are dry-stone built, too, so taking a new cable through is not something you do for fun, and wifi struggles to get through one of those walls, so using it for the whole house is simply not an option. \u00a0As wifi has got better over the years, it has helped reach the places that cables simply can’t reach.<\/p>\n
Funny how I always end up talking about computers, isn’t it?<\/p>\n
So what about the family?\u00a0 My husband is a technophobe who uses Linux because that’s what I gave him, and it does the very limited things he needs without needing any attention.\u00a0 My two daughters are both computers-are-a-tool people.\u00a0 One has just been introduced to Linux when XP’s SP3 made her laptop unworkable.\u00a0 My son-in-law is a Windows user of the type that needs a wide berth – he installs with regularity that makes Linux must-have-the-latest types look tardy.\u00a0 That leaves my grandchildren – both with careers of their own..\u00a0 The granddaughter, Micky, is a ‘tool’ person, while my grandson, Andy, is keen on photography – he’s also very artistic. \u00a0At this time I don’t see much chance that either of them will be a Linux convert, which is sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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