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Throwing the Windows out with the viruses
August 06, 2008, 11:28:52 PM »
In another thread, yet another person has a broken Windoze machine, this one because of a virus. There was also an earlier thread about problems with Vista. Both are painfully familiar refrains.
Quite a few people in China people cannot do Microsoft updates because their "pirate" copy does not pass MS-update's validation checks (though some do, I think). Windows can be tolerably secure with the patches, but wandering about the net with an unpatched Windows box is distinctly risky, approximately as sensible as frequenting whorehouses without taking condoms. If you must run Windows, you absolutely must get access to the updates! If that means paying Microsoft, rough luck.
To me, the obvious solution is to get rid of Windows. One way is just get a Mac; I'd say almost anyone who is buying a new computer anyway should consider that.
But running a Microsoft-free PC is also quite possible. There are many choices of free operating systems for PCs, all in some ways superior to Microsoft products, and all free or cheap. Combine one of these with cheap PC hardware and you have the best bang-for-the-buck solution in sight.
For anyone who wants to cut to the chase, what I use and would recommend for non-technical home or laptop users is Xubuntu.
This post describes most of the available choices in possibly excruciating detail. Every opinion I express below is debatable; some would start a "religious war" in hacker circles.
You can form your own opinions, too. Every system described below has a web site; look at a few and you may see one or more where you say "I like their style." Most provide a "live CD" version of their software; you can download it, burn a CD and boot from the CD to try it without changing anything on your hard drive. If you don't like it, or if some hardware in your PC does not work with it, give away or throw away the CD. Or go back to the web site looking for help with your system/hardware issue; maybe it is easily fixed.
The free Unix systems are all complete solutions for common computing needs. With Windows, you may be able to get a cheap "Home" version, or may find it included with your laptop. However, that won't work right on a Windows-based office network; you need to "upgrade" to the "Professional" version to be able to use network authentication. The machine that provides the authentication service has to have the "Server" version. In contrast, every system described below (except perhaps Mac; I do not know how Apple packages things) comes with all the above built in. If you need some "server" features, including a database manager, you can just turn them on.
No version of Windows comes with a programming language, or database management software, or a suite of office tools. Those are separate products at a few $100 each. There are package deals that include Windows and one or more other products, cheaper than buying everything separately but still a significant chunk of change.
For any Unix, if you need a programming language, there are several built in and many others are easily added. Many distributions include office tools and a database, If not, adding them is straightforward, often just a few menu clicks.
Unix has been around in various forms since the early 70s, and Microsoft has copied a lot from it. The original Unix was written at Bell Labs, the research facility that invented the transistor and the laser. It was designed for research work, in a computer science research group; there was plenty of innovation and some of the best documentation of the era, but no hand-holding for amateurs. The old joke "Unix is user-friendly; it is just really choosy about who its friends are" has more than a grain of truth.
On the other hand, if you have to muck about at low levels of the system, Windows is arguably even worse; ever tried to edit the registry?
Unix is a wonderful system for software developers, a good platform to build other things on top of. Quite a few have built various user-friendly environments. The most obvious example is the Mac, which has FreeBSD (a Unix) under the hood. Every system discussed below has some sort of nice window-based front end as well; most offer a choice of several different ones.
There are three big groups of Open Source Unices (plural of "Unix"). Linux is best-known, but various *BSD distributions and Open Solaris are also worth considering. To describe the differences, I need to wax historical for a while. Bear with me, or skip paragraphs as seems appropriate.
Unix started off at Bell Labs, early 70s. By the 7th Edition, 1979, Unix was quite widespread throughout AT&T and in universities (who got it cheap) and was in use elsewhere. All modern Unices have more-or-less everything 7th Edition did, but things diverge from there.
ARPA, the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the US Defense Department built something called the ARPAnet, starting in 1969. Prime contractor was BBN, a consulting company that started off as acoustical physics profs designing opera houses but -- via wartime sonar work and postwar research on the sound barrier -- eventually ended up with a stable of top computer people and lots of military contracts.
Eventually, ARPAnet evolved into the Internet. A key change was replacing BBN's original low-level protocols -- designed to link a few dozen computer centers -- with a much more flexible system called TCP/IP. That's still what we use today.
The first operating system with TCP/IP support, around 1980, was Berkeley Unix. It was by no means all written at Berkeley; ARPA paid for it, and BBN and several other universities were involved, but it was a Berkeley Software Distribution, BSD 4.2.
BSD quickly became the standard for the many vendors springing up with engineering workstations; networking was essential for them. These were powerful machines for the day: Sun has never had a monitor resolution lower than 1152*864, or a machine without ethernet, since it started around 1980; they had 64-bit CPUs by the early 90s. Silicon Graphics was founded by the guy whose thesis invented the graphics co-processor. PCs have generally been roughly 10 years behind the workstation market, though the gap seems to be shrinking. Arguably, if you're going to use hardware based on innovations pioneered in those systems, you might as well use the software too. That would be a BSD Unix.
Today, there are several free BSD descendants available. There has been some fragmentation; when developers cannot agree on where the system should go next, they sometimes just form two teams which each take it in a different direction.
One split was over whether to try and be very portable and run on lots of platforms (NetBSD) or concentrate more on making it work really well on PCs (FreeBSD). The current MacOS is based on FreeBSD, and I'd say FreeBSD is the obvious choice among BSDs for PCs.
Consider NetBSD if you want to use anything but a PC.
OpenBSD, a NetBSD spinoff, really emphasizes security and correctness; they won't include code they have not audited. When Whizbang 8.0 comes out and everyone switches over for the wonderful new features, OpenBSD does not include it until the audit is done and it seems mostly bug-free. They might continue with Whizbang 7.3 or they might just not support Whizbang at all, leaving it to users to download and build it if they need it. If a manufacturer of a graphics card, ethernet card or whatever does not release source code of drivers, or at least detailed device specs so a driver can be written, then OpenBSD does not support the device. Not something I'd want for my desktop, but definitely the first choice for an office firewall.
Dragonfly BSD is a new spinoff of FreeBSD, redesigning much of the low-level OS to better support multiple processors and load sharing over the network. For now, anyone except developers interested in those issues should steer well clear, but it may be more broadly interesting later. Intel's next generation, due late this year, go up to 8 cores on a chip, each hyperthreaded so the OS thinks it has 16 processors. By the time those become cheap and common, or the next generation turns up with even more cores, Dragonfly may be just the thing to run on them.
For more on any of those, see freebsd.org, netbsd.org etc.
Back to 1980 or so: AT&T decided Unix could be a product, and it should be spelled UNIX. They came up with System III and then System V. I remember a Unix conference mid-80s where AT&T marketers all had buttons on their suits "System V: Consider it Standard". They did pretty well with that line, too; quite a few big players had sysV-based products. However, others kept with BSD-based systems. Somewhere I think I still have a "4.2 > V" poster, from the same conference; you do need networking and sysV did not have TCP/IP built in.
There were efforts to sort the conflicts out. The IEEE came up with a standard called Posix, listing everything any Unix should have. Also, Sun and AT&T co-operated to produce System V Release 4, a sort of "best of both worlds" hybrid.
Sun's SysVr4 product was called Solaris, replacing the pure BSD SunOS. Today, Open Solaris is free for download
Definitely the choice if your feel better having a big company behind a product, though on the other hand HP and IBM are heavily involved in Linux, and Sun is a player there too. Worth considering in any case.
Then there's Linux, also out of academia but by a somewhat different route. In the early 80s most universities had Unix, including the source code, but the Unix license does not let you put Unix source on your slides or in your textbook. If you are teaching an operating systems course, you need code there. So a Dutch prof named Andrew Tanenbaum wrote Minix, basically a 7th Edition clone, that ran on PCs. His textbook, using Minix for all the examples, was very widely used. Minix was not free software, but you could buy the disks from his publisher.
The original PC and AT had 16-bit CPUs. Minix ran on those, or in 16-bit mode on Intel's 80386, and on the 32-bit Mac, but not in 32-bit mode on the 386. Tanenbaum showed little interest in fixing that; it would run just fine on a 386 in 16-bit mode, all you need in a teaching tool. Why make major changes to the code, especially if they mean you have to revise the book?
Nobody could distribute a 386 Minix; the publisher's copyright prevented that. What you could distribute were patch files that let anyone with a copy of the 16-bit version (presumably duly licensed) convert it to the 386 bit version. This was complicated and inconvenient in a bunch of ways.
Then a student doing a course based on Tanenbaum's book wrote a standalone 386 kernel that used the Minix file system and utilities. He announced it on the comp.os.minix newsgroup in 1991. Some of the reactions were along the lines of "Go away, kid. We're trying to do serious work here, getting these blasted patches to install", but other people reacted much better, in fact pitched in and started improving it. The kid was named Linus, so he called his kernel Linux.
Meanwhile, the Free Software Foundation had been developing a system called GNU (GNU's Not Unix), designed to be Unix-like and Posix-compliant but entirely free. Free in the sense of "free speech" not "free beer"; the issue is the user's freedom to modify, not cost. Their kernel project was bogged down in complexity, nowhere near ready, but they had a nice collection of other tools. These were designed for portability to more-or-less any 32-bit system, but most would not work on 16-bit systems.
Linux was a free 32-bit system. Add the GNU stuff (much of which the BSDs also use), some other things like the X Window system developed at MIT, and some borrowed BSD stuff. Presto; you've got a complete system.
Various organisations build Linux distributions, neatly packaged systems with all the above and maybe some of their own add-ons. Each has a somewhat different method, combination of features and target market. To some extent, they all co-operate and quite a few use code developed by other distros.
Debian, Gentoo and Slackware are distros that seem to be more BSD-like, aiming at something small, clean and solid that you can add to as needed rather than a big complex system with everything you might need. Most experts seem to prefer a BSD, Solaris or one of these.
Other distros aim more at plug-and-play completeness. Red Hat, whose current system is called Fedora, appear to be biggest in the US. The German company, SuSe (recently bought by American Novell) have a big piece of the market in Europe. Mandriva are an almagamation of European Mandrake and Conectiva, the main vendor in Latin America. The Japanese distro Turbolinux sells all over Asia. There's even at least one Chinese distro, Red Flag.
Then there's Ubuntu
, a relatively new distribution based on Debian. It uses the Debian package management system so adding more-or-less anything you need is straightforward. There are three variants using different window managers, so here comes a digression to explain what a Window manager in X is.
X is a distributed Window system; the X server runs on your workstation, controls the keyboard and mouse, and provides display services to client programs. Each window can have a different client and the clients can be anywhere. You can be at your desktop but running your word processor on some other machine, compiling code on another and running a simulation on a third; all can display on your desktop machine.
The X documentation says "We provide mechanism, not policy." None of the choices about how to display each window -- borders, buttons, etc. -- are hardwired into the X server. Most systems use a Window manager, a program that accepts requests from client programs, adds all the extra details and passes them on to the X server. There are several dozen different Window managers available, including ones that emulate Windows or the Mac quite well. A catalog is at
Beyond that, there are a dozen or so more ambitious systems available, more-or-less complete desktop environments for X each with all the accessories -- a calendar program, an email handler, MP3 player and so on -- plus a programmer's interface so people can build more.
The GNU project have a desktop environment called Gnome, large and complex but popular; the normal version of Unbuntu uses that. Kubuntu uses KDE, somewhat smaller but still a rich and complex system, also quite popular.
Neither of those runs well on slower or smaller machines. For those, Ubuntu provide Xubuntu which uses XFCE, a much smaller and lighter window manager built with stripped-down Gnome code and using the Gnome programming interfaces so most or all Gnome add-ons can be used with it.
I have quite a powerful PC, but Xubuntu is a good compromise for me. On good hardware it is fast enough. though not nearly as quick as just picking a lightweight Window manager and dispensing with all the overhead of a desktop environment. That's what most hackers would do, but I want the convenience.
Last Edit: April 12, 2013, 10:49:54 PM by Pashley
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Re: Throwing the Windows out with the viruses
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August 07, 2008, 01:08:00 AM »
Great post Pashley!
I've just bought a new Dell AMD 64 Athlon X2 lappie and got it loaded with Ubuntu "Hardy Heron". It's fast, stable, virus-free!
Everyone (especially in China) should at least have a look at Ubuntu (which includes Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu and others) - it's designed to work "out of the box" and is surprisingly "Window's like". And it's FREE.
It's also great with multiple languages. At the log-in screen you choose the language. This means you can have a Chinese option - so partners, work-mates or Chinese learners can easily use it in Chinese - and then switch back to English by logging out the user and logging back in and choosing a different language. Dead easy!
Any program you want is easily downloaded - for FREE - and is registered and updated. There's lots of information and support available on the Ubuntu forum
In case you really need Windoze programs you can usually run individual applications using a program called Wine. You can also install a virtual machine inside Ubuntu that runs the complete Windoze OS. I've got XP inside Ubuntu just for running Dreamweaver and 天天 music player. They are the only two programs I use that I don't have a good, FREE Linux alternative program for.
Just for fun and your own education, visit the Ubuntu site
and check it out - download and try the "Live CD" - you'll be surprised!
P.S. - A handy little trick - I've got Ubuntu set up on a portable, bootable hard drive, so I can plug it into any computer - say, the virus ridden Chinese-language XP machine in the school office, reboot and be using my own English-language Ubuntu system off their computer, virus free. When I'm finished I unplug the drive, reboot the computer and they are back in their own special hell without any signs I was there.
Another P.S. - I love plugging in other peoples usb drives and portable media and seeing the collections of virii they have collected, that are just sitting there, unable to do anything on my Ubuntu system.
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Re: Throwing the Windows out with the viruses
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August 08, 2008, 04:20:28 AM »
Has anyone tried Linspire? I am curious if it's worth the time investment. I don't want to add learning code just to run an o. s. on my list of things I need to do in this lifetime.
Last Edit: August 08, 2008, 04:30:01 AM by Spaghetti
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August 08, 2008, 02:50:01 PM »
Linspire looks like Ubuntu with a price tag. Why buy what you can get for free?
I think that there's not really any need to learn "code" to use Ubunutu. Everything is pretty much GUI driven. Try the live CD, see how it works on your system. If it works, great! If it all looks too difficult, give it a miss.
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Re: Throwing the Windows out with the viruses
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August 08, 2008, 05:46:44 PM »
Linspire used to be free, but I guess that was a while ago. A concern I have about ubunutu is trying to find all of the drivers for hardware. I am considering it.
Last Edit: August 09, 2008, 01:12:13 AM by Spaghetti
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August 08, 2008, 06:02:23 PM »
Finding the drivers is really not much of an issue anymore. Ubuntu is way ahead of what it was a couple of years ago.
there is also a huge online following that make it simple to find answers to most questions.
Using the LiveCD does not effect your system at all. So it is certainly worth trying. It will cost you 1 blank CD.
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August 09, 2008, 01:06:43 AM »
Next payday I will look into that. I actually have a legal, English version of Windows XP with me, but I have to rely on a crack to use it since it's already registered with my computer back in America. On general principal I refuse to pony up for another "license." My hard earned cash paid for it once and I'm using it on my own computers. I'm not distributing it. However, Microscam doesn't care. I've been in China long enough that I will invest into putting together a home theater p. c. and if I can put it together without having to use Windows as the base operating system then I would be incredibly happy. Non Dave, you mentioned that you have a projection set up. Would you care to share the specs on that? How much would a reliable, lower-end video projection set up set me back in RMB?
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August 09, 2008, 01:47:40 AM »
Hey Spag, check out
for lots of good info on HTPC's (Home Entertainment PC's).
I'm also in the process of putting one together. Ubuntu has a (Free) distribution called Mythbuntu that provides everything needed for that - as well as lots of other options.
My projector is a home entertainment model (which means it has a tv tuner) and has a lamp that is user replaceable and rated for about 10,000 hours, so it can handle lots of every day use. 2000 lumens and SVGA. It's ceiling mounted and has a 100" remote control screen to project onto.
Info on the projector, a Dreamland 852, at
A package deal with projector, spare lamp, ceiling mount and 100"screen starts at under 6000RMB.
PM me for info on how to get a better price. Cost would depend on which model & which options you want with it and where it has to be shipped to.
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August 09, 2008, 03:34:34 AM »
Thank you Non Dave. I'll take a look into it. I don't think a ceiling mount and a mounted screen are possible for me at this time. I don't own the apartment, and I'm looking for something I might be able to lug around on a whim. I will look into the matter and the ubuntu operating system as well.
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October 24, 2008, 10:31:18 AM »
Quote from: non-dave on August 07, 2008, 01:08:00 AM
Everyone (especially in China) should at least have a look at Ubuntu (which includes Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu and others) - it's designed to work "out of the box" and is surprisingly "Window's like". And it's FREE.
Edubuntu in particular might be of interest to teachers. It is designed for classroom use, with a server and a bunch of diskless PCs for the students.
Most PCs can be set to boot from the network rather than from disk. The Edubuntu server includes everything you need for the other end of that, the machine they boot from.
Even quite an old PC can handle X; all it has to do is manage mouse, keyboard & display. All the applications run elsewhere. An 800 MHz machine is certainly enough; I know people using 200 fairly happily.
The server does not have to do any display so it can run more applications than one would think without bogging down. With big classes or heavy applications, though, you'll need a fairly powerful server and in particular lots of RAM. Before using Edubuntu for any serious purpose, I'd suggest maxing out server RAM. You cannot tell how much you will need, so just put in as much as the machine can take; RAM's cheap.
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I investigated most of the options, and then downloaded the Ubuntu installation file a few months ago. Since then I've been trying to summon up the cojones to make the switch, due to the small risk of having problems getting everything up and running properly.
A now here's a risk free, hassle-free alternative:
's idea of the portable bootable hard-drive loaded with Ubuntu is a stroke of genius. Many thanks for that.
A small point - that Ubuntu file is big, as you'd expect for an operating system. Around 700MB (a full CD's worth), if I remember correctly. You need a reasonably good broadband connection for that to be a realistic download.
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Quote from: Foscolo on October 24, 2008, 12:57:41 PM
I investigated most of the options, and then downloaded the Ubuntu installation file a few months ago. Since then I've been trying to summon up the cojones to make the switch, due to the small risk of having problems getting everything up and running properly.
A now here's a risk free, hassle-free alternative:
's idea of the portable bootable hard-drive loaded with Ubuntu is a stroke of genius. Many thanks for that.
The Ubuntu forums have much info on doing that, but I found this site better:
I installed Xubuntu, both 7.something and 8.04, using their instructions and it went without a hitch. Space used was about 1.5 gigs.
Not all PCs will boot from USB, but most recent ones will.
Ubuntu provide a "live CD" version, too. Just put that in, boot from it and you have a running Linux system. Not particularly useful since you cannot save files, but really handy for discovering whether you like Ubuntu, testing whether your sound card works with it, etc.
For some versions, the "live CD" was a different CD than the install CD. On others, you could just use the install CD for that (just don't click "install" on someone else's system!). Not sure which for current version.
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The Free Software Foundation now have a site about what's wrong with Windows 7.
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September 23, 2009, 07:23:39 PM »
Beautiful post and great lesson in OS development.
The GNU scene has been around for awhile and the "hackers" that make these things possible will be happy to entertain anyone interested in using the software they've designed.
Open source is about truth in software development. I can only pray that these designs remain open.
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Quote from: Pashley on August 06, 2008, 11:28:52 PM
To me, the obvious solution is to get rid of Windows. One way is just get a Mac; I'd say almost anyone who is buying a new computer anyway should consider that.
But running a Microsoft-free PC is also quite possible. ...
An article on IBM's "Microsoft-free PC" program
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Until it happened to me.
Out the door.
Girl, I'm right there watching it with you! This is a good day, doing the happy dance can be addictive you know. Yay for you.
Wow! Amazing! It's like a dream come true! Would love for that to happy at my booth! Now you gotta get busy adding new stuff to your space!
Hey, Anne, that is fantabulous about the big cleanout today! :o) WooHoo!!!
And . . . mmmmm . . . more yummy Gerard ;o) hehe
Oh Anne! I am doing the happy dance FOR you! You must be feeling pretty gosh dern proud of yourself today girl!
I'm watching the Finale right now! What a great thing to have one of THOSE days! Congrats to you!!
Ooh I love that when it happens! I had a dealer come in and buy about $500. out of my booth last month and boy was I happy. So, I know how you feel. Happy dance is good!
Nice pic at the end. Oh yeah!
You go girl!! I always hear "they were buying out of the boxes while I was unpacking!!!!!"... and it did happend to me once. Did the jig as well.
You're not watching Pickers?
awesome! congrats on the big day! I think they call that housewarming money ;o
Hooray for you!! This is a red letter day indeed. Gerard Butler has been one of my favorites since Phantom of the Opera. He looks even better (in my humble opinion) with a half-mask and deeply v'd, ruffled shirt. And he can really sing!
Enjoy the rest of your week!
Congratulations on such a fabulous day, my friend. And...thank you for another peek. He's still a dish! I'm unashamed, by the way!
Congrats!!! Guess you will just have to go out and hunt up some more treasure!! Fun!!!
I love you. Hahhhhhahhhhh.... I love those days too.
wooHOOO for you! (I'm not surprised - your finds are amazing!)
Baaaaah Haaaa haaaa! Nice pic;)
WOW good for you! That's awesome!! Woo hoo!:)
Yay! That is an awesome day alright! Makes it all worth it, huh? We all need one of those days now and again!!
Thanks for your sweet comment earlier today!
I love your stuff. So wonderfully shabby chic!
Congrats to you! In this market you are very blessed to have been cleaned out and for a great price too! Anne
oh, thats great...ok, send some of that great luck to me...my booth is sooooooo full!!
Oh' Anne, I'm so happy for you!!!! It's wonderful when things just turn around like that. God seems to have his own plan and we just don't even know when it's coming.
Blessing Sweetie....Tracy :)
Yummy photos! I mean...lovely photos! lol...congrats I on selling it all! I am doing the happy dance for you too. You deserve it! ~lulu
You just had one of those great I sold it all and I get to go look for more days!!!Happy hunting!
You & me both are having "that kind of day" - I thought it was a myth too when I found out I passed my class today! :) Anyway, that is so wonderful!! Glad to hear it!! What a cute little under the stairs nook you have there~ enjoy your great news!
xoxo, L
Anne, no wonder your followers increase, with cheesecake like that guy and the previous ones! HA! Here's 3 cheers for making a killing at the booth! You go, girl! (I'll try to get a pic of Maya doing the happy dance for you; that girl has moves!!)
AWESOME!!!!!I am dancing right along side of you:)
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Wow that is wonderful, exciting news. Well deserved--Congratulations!!
What a great day! And I can see why that dealer cleaned you out - your booth is lovely! Now you need more stuff!!!
How W O N D E R F U L ! !!!! !!
I would be estatic!
Oh my, how wonderful!! Love to get a big order, but this would just make my day. Now you have to get busy and restock - LOL!
Good on you gal! Have a jig for me and by the way - I LOVE being a hussie!
That is amazing and a great woohoo to you!!!
Bunch of hogs to buy SO MANY of your goodies:) You can have fun now restocking it! Sounds like fun to me!
Enjoy your day my friend! HUGS!
Hold onto that feeling girlfriend, it's a good one!!!! Congratulations, Char
Wow Anne that is such Great news!! I am so Happy for you...doing little dance right now with you!!
Soooo that means....Shopping time again!!!
Oh wish I could go with you to shop for more
wonderful items for your booth!!
Go Girl!!
Hugs, Smiles and totally Awesome!!
Oh how I would love to have that happen to me. Maybe I could clean out the garage. Congrats!!! Jan
Wow! Congratulations! Ka-ching! lol
Congrats anne! That is over the top fabulous!!! And thanks for sharing your good fortune with that last photo! Oh dear me, I am a hussy! Theresa
How exciting that must have been!! Oh and thanks for throwing in the eye candy eye (;
Yea... congratulations!! That is an *awesome* day! :)
Congratulations Anne on your big sale! What a lovely booth ...I can see why she fell in love with everything. OMG...I especially LOVE your last photo...I missed your last post and had to go and read it. Love that Gerard Butler...be still my heart ..giggle. Have a wonderful Tuesday....Maura :)
Now that is a fabulous day ! Congrats ! Your shop looks so inviting and adorable , who could not want to get everything !!
congrats on selling so much of your stuff! so exciting! and i love the bachelorette...can't wait til it comes on : ) have fun re-filling your area!
I think all dealers have that dream! Lucky for you it came true!! And all I can say about the last picture is YUM! Gotta love some Gerard Butler!!
Congratulations, I must agree with that dealer everything looked so yummy, how could she resist! I bet she loved the way everything looked so great together. Very good, nice to see your hard work pay off! Now off to do more hunting? Hugs, Miss Diane
Congrats!!! That is awesome!!! I am also watching the Bachelorette....yay she picked Roberto!!!!
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Congrats on the mega-sale day! Yay for you!
Thank you for stopping by Grandma's Briefs. You're welcome any time. (And I am so with you on the Johnny Depp as a neighbor!)
Thanks for the eye-candy, too!
What an awesome day...I would do the happy dance, too!!
Hi Anne, Awesome that you had such a wonderful day. I am so happy for you. I would dance right along with you. Take care Your Missouri Friend.
AWESOME! When that happens, I can't decide whether it's the money, the relief, or that another dealer sooooo "gets" you! It's a rare day when that happens, so REVEL in it! Congrats!
Im doing the Happy Dance for you!!!! That is such great news. What a great excuse to go shopping again ~ Thanks for sharing the wealth with your bloggy pals and sending us all a great big dose of eye candy ~ Mama likey:)
hah im still laughing about hussies.Loveeeee love that crib.So cute.Congrats good news for you,hope it ci\ontinues Ann,this maybe a start of something BIG for you.
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I *LOVE* days like that...then I start to panic:)
Have fun!
Good for you!! I love days like that. When I first had my furniture in a shop, nothing big was selling and I thought it was not going to work out. Then, all of my pieces sold in one day. It was crazy.
hmm how did that happen it was continues I dont know how the slash got in there,lol.
Woo Hoo for you!!
Do you have a better pic of the Southern Belle on the back wall? I'd love to see a closeup. She may be the mate to one I have, or might even be the same!
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Well Anne, it's kinda' hard to congratulate you when I'm slobbering over Gerard, so I hope you understand. As far as the hussy thingy goes......it takes one to know one.....ha ha!
Fab for you Anne. Now go buy vintage for your new house!
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Congratulations! Send some luck my way!
Don't you just love when that's happens girl...I just buy lots and make your dreams come true ha ha!! Hope your having a great week sounds like you are...Hugs and smiles Gl♥ria
i'm lost with that hot foxy man, but i will say congrats to you and the BIG sale!!! i used to have those...lol...back when i had a booth i could actually go to and stock instead of just shipping stuff. it's a great feeling to know you can restock and reshape!!!! awesome. have fun putting more stuff back in. you have a great style. that dealer will come back for more!!!
take care....
AWESOME!!! That is a wonderful day and the $$$ will come in handy for the new house!
Have fun filling up your space!
Keep cool :)
That is fabulous news. I can understand why you were doing the happy dance! Now more shopping to fill that booth up again. Look forward to seeing what you find.
For HEAVENS sake Anne....a DISCLAIMER wouldn't have gone astray before you wacked another pic of GB up on your blog all SUDDEN LIKE without WARNING....I'm at work Lovey & almost choked on my coffee....I've got coffee all over my keyboard now....hahahahahaSNORT....!!
WAY TO GO on your sales but please....In future....A little care with the placement of tasty manflesh....!!
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Way to go...Anne girl!!! I am thrilled for you. There is nothing better than knowing folks love your 'stuff'
congrats on your wonderful (obviously, shared) taste in antiques and vintage goods! now you get to go out hunting for more! double fun news!
I am doing the Happy Dance with you tonight!!! That is so exciting that you sold most all of your stuff. WOW!!! God knew that you were moving and you needed the extra money right now. What a blessing for you! I am so excited for you. That baby bed was gorgeous!!! My daughter and I watched the Bachelorette too. We loved both Chris and Roberto, but knew that in her heart she was going to pick Roberto. We hope that they pick Chris to be the next Bachelor. He has such a sweet and kind heart! Congratulations again!!! Love & blessings from NC!
Oh yeah Anne! I am so happy for you and how neat is that, to have someone come and buy most of your merchandise. Congratulations!
Thanks for giving us hussies, a thrill for today.
Happy rest of the week
Good For YOU!!!!!!! $$$$$$$$ for the house!!!! That is every dealers dream come true. And now she know's that she loves your style... she'll be back so get busy buying & fluffing. I had to DVR The Finale & just finished watching it tonight. I just KNEW she'd choose Roberto didn't you? She had WAY too much chemistry not to. Poor Chris. But, thank goodness Frank is gone what a looser!!!! Have a great week. HUGS!
Fantastic! Congratulations, Anne!
And thanks for that last photo too ;)
woo hoo darlin CONGRATS on the wipeout!!! youre a doll and I was so happy to share in your moment.
love ya girl
Ha! at first I got the feeling you were sad that they were gone! then I kept reading about the happy dance... ha ha! that is great news! Now you've got a wad of cash to go by more goodies with!
love the eye candy... yum
That's awesome, Anne!!! Congratulations! I'm sure it also will be fun to fill up the empty spaces again. Good luck hunting!
Hooray for you! Couldn't have happened to a nicer lady.
Anne - That is SO good for you. Big congrats. That´s what everyone could just dream of.
xo Tina
Oooooh, gee, thanks Mrs. Twig! Me likes a lil' Gerard glimpse just before bedtime. And whoa, congrats on the major sell out, just in time to have a little cash to outfit your new abode. Totally amazing. Okie dokie, off to scroll back up for another Gerard fix. ~ Angela
My goodness Anne,
congratulations dear, what a fantastic day for you--so great.Could use such a day,too, here the sale is very slow...
Happy new creating, your booth, so much more fun,when lots of stuff has gone!!!
Dending you huhs.
That's fantastic news - well done you.The fun part is going to be searching out some other great stuff to restock your booth with. Good Luck.
I hope you don't mind if I copy that pic,print and enlarge it and paper my bedroom walls with it? Thank You. x
Wow! Wonderful!! I think things are picking up, I had a good month too, selling several pieces of furniture along with a lot of smalls. Now what are you gonna do? Have fun re-stocking!
love ya,
I wish you many more of THOSE kind of days! How wonderful. Now you most restock with more treasures. I think it's HIS way of helping you simplify for your move into you beautiful home. (You did say you needed to get rid of things!)
Your Friend,
Yaa Hooo for your! I'm opening my first booth soon. I'm scared and excited. You are an inspiration to me for this. I have never done anything like this before.
Wish me luck!
Now you probably need to go junkin to fill that space up!
Enjoy your day,
Congrats! What a great day for you! Oh yes....i am a bachlorette fan too! I thought she was going to pick Chris but she is so happy with Roberto!
Your booth is lovely, and I could see why someone was smitten with your offerings! I'm so happy that you had a great day for sales, and wish you many, many more in the future!
How exciting!!! I have been witness to the dealer cleaning out a booth only it wasn't mine. Hopefully soon though! Have a great day!
That is wonderful!! More money to spend on your new house!
I was so sure that Allie was going to choose Chris. I liked Roberto but thought Chris was better suited for her. Oh well....we shall see how long it lasts.
I scrolled al the way through the post and once I saw Gerald I forgot what the post was about! LOL!!! I am so proud of you Anne! Now you get to go shopping to restock:) Love, Jamie
Anne - Congrats on your big sales!!! I'd say the buyer just has absolutely fabulous taste, because your booth space looks awesome. Love your style!
Take care, Kathy
Oh yeah!!!!!!!!!!! Good for you Anne!!! Seems we're not the only ones that recognize your talent!!
Happy August ~
Congrats on getting everything in your booth sold!!! Your booth is beautiful - it's not surprising that someone would come in and want everything!
Thanks for Gerard - if you tilt your head it's like your laying down with him :)
woo hoo! good for you! that's awesome! i'm taking the tour!
YAHOO~ congrats! Let the re~stocking begin. ;)
How many comments !! ...eh..is that your shop?????? please let me know???? it looks great !!!!! ...happy day darling........love Ria....
Lucky You! That is great news!~Hugs, Patti
It's no wonder someone wiped you out! I linked to your post on the "think globally, start locally" {loved that humor!} and your prices are so fair! Yummy, yummy stuff. Come and peddle your wares in the Atlanta area...second thought, I'd never leave the beautiful Hill Country for this rat race. never mind. Xo, Sue
That is wonderful news!! Yay for you, I love hearing about "those" days!!! xo xo
I'm so happy for you!!!! I'm doing the happy dance for you :)
How did you like the ending last night? I was so thrilled. I had been reading reality steve who said Ali leaves with no one! I went to bed with a big smile on my face!
Congratulations! What a wonderful day!!! Doin' the happy dance with ya' girlfriend!!!! What a great thing. I hope the buyer got your info and hopefully passes on your info to a few of his friends. :)
Hey girlie!
I have been missing ya...I have been popping in every now and then, but I have totally become a lurker! LOL
I am soooo happy for you about the house and about your rockin sales! I guess we will be doing some serious junkin in Warrenton this Fall!
I need to call you so we can catch up. :)
Gerard in that photo....I jump off the chair!!!!!! Thank you, I had few seconds of perfect happiness..... sigh :O
Of course she bought you out...she has good taste!!! Thanks for the eye candy. Just heard that Gerard was chosen to be in the American version of "The girl with the Dragon Tattoo" YAY!!!! love Brad Pitt but he was all wrong for this role.
Congrats, what a wonderful day you had. I love your blog it is so lovely, and your new home is gorgeous.....Kathy
Awesome! So Happy for you!!
Wow!!!! And now, Anne, the hunt for more STUFF goes on! Have fun!!!
Hugs, Diane
Annie: CONGRATS ON 300!!
I have a feeling that I am
going to be saying CONGRATS
to you a lot from here on out,
my dear sweet bloggy friend.
Call it intuition....karma....
whatever....But no matter the
name, it couldn't happen to
a more adorable and kind girl!
xx Suzanne
PS: How did you know that I
LOVE Gerry B???
LOL!! Thanks for the pic! Congrats!!! HOW awesome to sell it all. Now you get to redo the WHOLE thing!! Woo-Hoo!! Enjoy!!!
Hugs, Lisa
Congratulations on having one of THOSE days Anne! I am doin' the happy dance with ya! I somehow missed your last post because the last picture came as a shock! But a really nice shock!
~ Tracy
dandy, that's just dandy! now get busy shoppin'!
Oh Anne.....I knew I should of bought more "STUFF" when I stopped by earlier this year. (O:(O: GOOD FOR YOU!!!
That is so funny, I just said to you 'where you doing the happy dance'. I didn't know you actually said that~ I'm not one bit surprised you got wiped out, you have outstanding taste my friend. Love that wicker crib, I'll bet the buyer did her own happy dance. And speaking for us hussies, of course this post goes viral with the porn shot. LOL Now Kevin is saying 'sure you guys talk about art & antiques'. Your fan & friend, Lisa
Wow!! Congrats Anne! That is amazing :) More money for decorating woo-hoo!!
And the man above ..... oh my goodness....;)
Wow! How cool is that!!!!!
Love your 300th post! Just watched Bounty Hunter with him :]
Good on you for making those amazing sales. In fact it is amazing that all that great stuff had been in your boot for so long.
I don't know if you got wind of it but I tweeted your 'enough' post and it got picked up by some other people too. Your really should get on twitter too :-)
It's a little to early in the morning for that!
I've got the vapors now my dear!!!
Wanted to let you know, you made my "Comment of the week" and your lovely blog and your comment are on the sidebar.
Congrats on that and the pilaging of your antique booth! Ye-Haw!
I am so happy for you. A dealers dream to sell out. Shopping, shopping to get more pretties for your booth. Thank you so much for your lovely comment. I hope next month has you doing the happy dance too.
That's the way to roll! and look at all these comments...You are a rock Goddess!!
My gosh...
If that is one of THOSE days, I'd really hate to hear about one of T-H-O-S-E days!!!! hahahaha
Good for you girl. I say quit the hospital and stock that booth up again so ya'll can pay the new house off immediately!!!
I miss you girl...
Sorry I haven't been visiting.
(head down in shame)
please forgive me...i beg of you st. anne
Yay for you!!! Oo la la on the picture baby!
Congrats on the fabulous sale!!!! I hope you were able to get contact info about the buyer - she obviously has really great taste :) How's the new house coming?
That is utterly fantastic Anne,love hearing news like this!! And well the last photo, swoon!! xoxo
Anne! I am so proud of you and happy about the great lot of sales! You must be beside yourself with giddiness : ) I have loved watching your space evolve and have learned a lot from you as I am about 3 months into my journey now. I love doing the space and want it to be just a little bit more lucrative over the next several months. So many things to learn.
Yes, you do need to restock and I happen to LOVE the Rustoleum 2x coverage spray paint in Heirloon White matte finish. I've probably used 50 cans of it over the last several months. It covers so well, is a perfect shad of off-white and goes on so smoothly. I've never had a can get "gummed up" on me. I use one of those little attachments to spray easier and that works wonderfully. I buy mine at Home Depot. It is the best line of spray paint EVER.
I'm about to paint a bench that we made from an old double headboard and footboard. Now that one won't be going to the shop. It will be staying her at Starview Sonnet with me. I really think it's going to be fantastic in my gallery/hallway. Can't wait to pile it up with seasonal pillows.
Although many of my handmade items have begun selling, I DO LOVE giving those long forgotten smaller furniture pieces a whole new life. It is truly amazing the details that can "out" when you paint something off-white.
I've also started attending some auctions....Now isn't that just a blast? An all-day event, but so worth it!
Do you ever run across these little telephone stands? I think it is from the late 50's or early 60's. Don't see them too often.
So good to hear from you : )
good for you! how exciting! now you can fill it up again!! i missed your last post, i watched ps. i love you for the first time recently, he is cute! have a super day!! susan
Oh Miss Anne, So much has happened in your life these past few months that I have neglected blogland! Congrats on your sucessful day at the shop. And, your new home!!!!! How wonderful I can't wait to see how you decorate it. My cottage/shoppe has finally begun come and check it out. hugs,Kim
Well, I don't know who Mr. Hunky is, but congratulations on the success of your booth. Successful stories are always inspiring.
Wow I bet you did do the Happy Dance. I can just see you. lol
Isn't it great when you have a shopper like that one.
Enjoyed all your pictures and my visit over here today.
Hope you entered my giveaway that ends Friday
I love this post so much! It's so exciting to read about other people's success stories and my goodness, your booth is fabulous! Yum!
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Regulations to Remember: The daily bag limit for walleye on Ohio waters of Lake Erie is six fish per angler; minimum size limit is 15 inches. … The daily bag limit for yellow perch is 30 fish per angler on all Ohio waters of Lake Erie. … The trout and salmon daily bag limit is 2 fish with a minimum size limit of 12 inches. … The black bass (largemouth and smallmouth bass) daily bag limit is five fish per angler with a 14-inch minimum size limit.
Study identifies obstacles to aquaculture expansion
Better rules for sustainable fish farms could provide the state with a $1 billion a year industry, according to the Michigan Sea Grant, a coastal conservation research group.
The fish farms, collectively known as aquaculture, are few so far, but Michigan's abundant system of inland lakes, Great Lakes and fresh groundwater means there's large potential for growth, researchers said.
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Genetic evidence of Eurasian ruffe, an invasive species in the perch family, has been found for the first time in southern Lake Michigan, a conservation group said Tuesday.
The Nature Conservancy said a team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame, Central Michigan University and its own organization found evidence of DNA of Eurasian ruffe in Calumet Harbor, south of Chicago.
Two positive samples from the harbor were collected on July 8. The harbor is at the mouth of the Chicago-area waterway system. Environmental DNA is a surveillance tool that can be used to monitor the genetic presence of aquatic species.
Enbridge could be forced to boost pipeline safety in Michigan after water violations
Michigan environmental officials are drafting a settlement with Canadian pipeline operator Enbridge Inc. over a series of violations of the state's water laws that occurred earlier this year.
The settlement would keep Enbridge out of court while requiring the company to beef up its environmental practices when testing the new pipeline it is building to replace Line 6B, which ruptured in 2010.
Buffalo River Dredging Underway (USA)
The Buffalo River Restoration Partnership, a unique public-private-non-profit partnership, including U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper and Honeywell is moving forward with plans to address a number of environmental problems affecting the Buffalo River.
Mix of plans weighed for watersheds at Eagle Marsh
FORT WAYNE – Construction on a multimillion-dollar project to physically separate the Great Lakes and Mississippi watersheds in Eagle Marsh could begin next summer.
The Great Lakes and Mississippi River Interbasin Study Newsletter says federal officials have been doing extensive computer modeling of the complicated water flows in the area and found that their proposed solution should not cause further flooding.
Fort Wayne sits along a continental divide, which led to its nickname as the Summit City: The eastern half of Eagle Marsh, on the city's southwest side, drains into the Great Lakes by way of Junk Ditch, the St. Marys River and the Maumee River. The western half of the marsh drains into the Mississippi River by way of the Graham-McCulloch Ditch, the Little River, the Wabash River and the Ohio River.
Muskie Fishing: Campau Lake outing brings in a big one
When Michigan's firearm deer season opened last month and thousands of hunters took to the fields with their rifles and shotguns, Will Schultz went out with a different quarry in mind. The Grand Rapids sportsman planned to spend the day hunting instead for Michigan's largest predator fish: muskellunge.
"It's been a tradition for a long time," said Schultz, the founder and former president of the Michigan Muskie Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to the restoration of Michigan's muskellunge population. "I hunt deer with a bow now, but used to hunt with a gun. It just happened that one year I had no tags left and decided to fish instead.
"I fish for everything. You have to in order to be a good angler, but this is what I spend the majority of my time doing."
It might be time to think about ice fishing
Could ice fishing be around the corner?
It's starting to look that way.
Ponds and some lake channels are freezing over and there were rumors of some daring souls venturing out on some of those late last week. The colder nights help make good ice while windless days help preserve it.
Now, keep in mind experts say you need at least three inches of hard ice to be safe. Also, ice rarely freezes uniformly; it could be three inches in one spot and one or less in another.
Asian carp may be taking a back-door route
With all the fears of those dreaded Asian carp, the ones that leap skyward and have injured many a boat passenger, coming across the Great Lakes waterway, observers now are monitoring yet another way these invaders might some day find their way into Western New York waters.
For more than a decade, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service personnel have been following the northward progress of bighead, silver and black carp up the Mississippi River system into places where that river connects with rivers, streams and canals that feed into Lake Michigan.
Family sells Lake Michigan island to Nature Conservancy
TRAVERSE CITY — The Nature Conservancy said Wednesday it has bought most of an uninhabited Lake Michigan island that provides crucial stopover habitat for migratory birds, assuring it will remain permanently undeveloped and protected.
St. Martin Island is part of a chain stretching between Wisconsin's Door Peninsula and Michigan's Garden Peninsula in the northwestern corner of the lake. More than 7 miles from the nearest mainland, it features wetlands, cobblestone beaches, bluffs and thick vegetation. It sits northeast of Washington Island in Michigan waters.
Robalo Boats Appoints Pier 33 as Dealer
Pier 33 of St. Joseph, Michigan has recently been appointed as a dealer for Robalo Boats. Pier 33 will provide Robalo sales and service throughout West Michigan and Northern Indiana.
Pier 33 is a full service marina and boat dealership and is now a dealer for new boats from Robalo, Chaparral and Pursuit. In addition to new boat sales, Pier 33 offers pre-owned and brokerage boat and yacht sales, comprehensive boat maintenance and repair, year round storage, boat dockage and other services.
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A lot of time, effort, and money goes into organizing and putting on Charleston Pride. Charleston Pride Festival is funded strictly through sponsors and funds raised at events. Due to this fact, we have to raise money throughout the year in order for Charleston Pride Festival to be successful. In order for Charleston Pride Festival 2013 to be even more successful than Pride 2012, we encourage you to donate. If you cannot make it to one of our fundraisers, you can now donate directly through the Charleston Pride Festival site!
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