Living Car Free - What can't you live without?

I need variety. I've come to realize that it doesn't matter what it is, I can find nearly anything interesting, but I need it to change. Otherwise, I need the basics: food, shelter, water, and some form of companionship (even if it's a volleyball).

some form of companionship (even if it's a volleyball).
Son, you need to get out more.

son, you need to get out more.

i like my volleyball!

Okay Tieka givie it up...LOL :-). What model of old winnebago do you have? I like the really boxy models from the 70'S.

PW

It is an old 1972 Winne'. I absolutely love it. I can't afford to drive it, but if I ever need to just take off I know I can fit my whole house, including husband and pets in it. It leaks in some places, and doesn't have air conditioning unless you stop and use the air in the ceiling, but it has a huge amount of room. It even came with the original manuals. :)

I have never gotten one myself either, but I just spent a bunch of time cleaning up a machine from someone who caught just about 2 dozen different things before the machine got hosed to the point where it would no longer boot :crash:. But I do have to deal with mountains of spam :mad:. I am not wild about filters - too many false positives.

Or consider that of all of the email traffic on the network, 95% is measured to be spam. Most of it sent out from machines infected with malware which cause them to become a part of a botnet.


Its been a few years now but at that time anti spyware and browsers other than IE weren't as common as they are now. I mistyped an address and hit some porn sites in chinese or japanses and got infected with somehting that after fighting for a few hours I just decided it was faster to reformat. I was using AV, running as a non admin, etc. This was my first personal system with XP. about 6 months later the same thing happened. I was messing with linux anyway and had a dual boot so I never bothered to fix X at that time made the switch over and never looked back.

I'm finding that by keeping things better organized I don't have to live without as much. Seems tat now using a bike for times that I would have driven before I now need more stuff, from clothing to bike specific tools. For example someting to clean and oil the chain is bike specific. So I take the time to research the best product, make sure there is a place to put it and keep in inventoried. You would be surprised at the amount of people that rebuy things because they don't know they alrady had it or don't know where it is. I friend talks about his wife having 3-4 copies of movies because she don't know she already had it when she bought it. Anything I own is listed on a spreadsheet, those are organized so I know if I have a specific movie or tool.

I mistyped an address and hit some porn sites in chinese or japanses

of course

:innocent:

I was messing with linux anyway and had a dual boot so I never bothered to fix X at that time made the switch over and never looked back.

I tried linux a couple years ago, but Windows would do everything I wanted (slowly) while Debian linux would do almost everything quickly, and wouldn't work with my printer at all.

I use both Linux and Windoze. My company requires that I run windoze on THEIR computer:innocent: I discovered Knoppix (http://knoppix.net/) and continued on my merry way:D I have two laptops that are exclusively Linux based one running Debian and one running Ubuntu. It can be a PITA to get some peripherals to work, but once you get it ironed out they are much more dependable than windoze, and run faster too. I just had to return my 4 year old company laptop for a clean out and reload, seems it was SUPPOSED to have been done at the 3 year mark...per company policy.:rolleyes:

Aaron:)

I use Slackware, which is the old school Linux distribution. Besides being resistant to viruses, Linux does not have any element of planned obsolescence. Once you get a piece of software working, you can expect it to keep working forever. Linux also provides no-cost access to a vast collection of professional applications and programming tools developed at universities and research institutions over the last 40 years.

I switched to Linux back in 2002. I used Gentoo for about 6 years, until I found Arch which I use now. It does everything I need it to do, and once it's all set up to do everything I need I just leave it alone and it runs forever, exactly as it did the day I finished setting it up. :) I love that.

I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that car free people and Linux users share some key personality traits. Both groups operate in defiance of strong peer pressure and social network effects.

It is an old 1972 Winne'. I absolutely love it. I can't afford to drive it, but if I ever need to just take off I know I can fit my whole house, including husband and pets in it. It leaks in some places, and doesn't have air conditioning unless you stop and use the air in the ceiling, but it has a huge amount of room. It even came with the original manuals. :)

Do you live in yours?

Rowan is borrowing this one to live in for now, and may very well still be borrowing it when I get there too. We'll live in it until his boss puts an Atco on the property for us, or we find an RV of our own.

Rowan has done it up since that photo ... it's got an outdoor bathroom around the back with chemical toilet and solar shower, and there an awning out front for the living room. :)

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Do you live in yours?

Rowan is borrowing this one to live in for now, and may very well still be borrowing it when I get there too. We'll live in it until his boss puts an Atco on the property for us, or we find an RV of our own.

Rowan has done it up since that photo ... it's got an outdoor bathroom around the back with chemical toilet and solar shower, and there an awning out front for the living room. :)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3650/3331271857_0dbb2ee88e_m.jpg

Nothing wrong with Caravan living...I have done it before and will be doing it again shortly.:thumb: I actually have a couple to choose from.:rolleyes:

Aaron:)
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I go away for a day and you guys start talking about Linux? Just out of curiosity, is anybody really familiar with slackware/slax and pxeboot? I guess Linux should be added to the things I could not live without. Maybe it's just sh that I can't live without. If windows had sh, I'd probably have no (major) complaints about it. At the very least, I could hotfix the most prominent issues.

Cool... a Linux thread. I think. :innocent: I've got Ubuntu Inrepid running on two rigs and just downloaded Slackware 12.2 via torrent. Think I'll dual boot the Slack on the laptop until I get everything configured nicely, then wipe Intrepid. Unfortunately I still have an XP partition on the desktop. A very SMALL partition. Only used to download my ride data from my Garmin Edge. But the Edge sucks so I hope to replace it this year.

Oh yeah... what can't I live without? Obviously the list is the same for all of us, so I'll change it to what I'd RATHER not live without... bike, laptop, dogs at top of list.

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That's interesting that there seem to be an unusually high percentage of Linux users among us car-free folks. Or maybe it's just the number of car free bicyclists who frequent web forums that exhibit an increased Linux user base. But I digress...

Back to the topic of the thread, there aren't many things I couldn't live without. If we take "can't live without" as meaning "really don't want to live without", there would be my bicycle (of course), my computer, although I'm looking to downsize that to a netbook or laptop at some point, and some of my backpacking/hiking gear. I've got some books that I really don't want to part with but hardly ever use, so I know I could live without them just fine if I could bring myself to get rid of them and just use the university library when the need arises.

Then there are some things I really can't live without, but as knoregs said those are just about the same for all of us.

I can live without Linux.

My home theater with 5.1 sound and a 92" screen. Seriously, I love movies too much.

Pimp Airstream. I am jealous.

Pimp Airstream. I am jealous.

Thanks:o...there are 2 more parked out of the picture waiting on the decision on what to do with them.

Aaron:)

I can live without windows, my garmin software works under wine and even if it didn't there is plenty of software that does.

I can live without windows

If I have to be stuck indoors, windows are something I need. I start to go through 'outdoor and sun' withdrawl without them.

I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that car free people and Linux users share some key personality traits. Both groups operate in defiance of strong peer pressure and social network effects.

I use LInux Mint at home. Defiance of strong peer pressure and social network effects gets me out of bed in the morning.:)

I am thinking about an Airstream too. Can I haul it with a mountain bike?

I use LInux Mint at home. Defiance of strong peer pressure and social network effects gets me out of bed in the morning.:)

I am thinking about an Airstream too. Can I haul it with a mountain bike?

Dunno why not:thumb:

Aaron:)

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my garmin software works under wine and even if it didn't there is plenty of software that does.

What software? I have a Garmin Edge and keep a small WinBlows partition just to run the 'Training Center' software. But if I had an open source program to take its place I could dump the WinBlows altogether. I suppose I could go the WINE route but I'd rather not. Any suggestions?

I have an Etrex Legend HCx, map souce 6.13.7 works fine under wine, the latest mapsource and basecamp does not. I'm using virtualbox to run windows under linux if I want to play with anything windows so I don't need a windows partition.

As long as I have my coffee I can be a happy man.