Conversion Time

I have moved my old laptop (3 years old) that I rarely ever use, over to Debian GNU/Linux. Things are as they usually are with a new OS, pretty bewildering, I mean just that feeling of not being at home with your usual OS. When I first got my iMac I felt very not at home as I'd never used a Mac before. Now very ill at ease moving away from my beloved Mac (even in OS 9) to Windows or Linux. I'm still having to figure some things out with Debian. I've got it running all the nice GUIs that come with the CDs (which are available for download here, I used the BitTorrent download option. And there is an FAQ on all that.) so I am still trying to figure things out with it. I had to edit a file to get it to display my screen resolution correctly... Erm And the sound I haven't got working, but most importantly my laptop's network card is working, even though the security updates to Debian aren't. anyway, I've only been using it for 10 or so hours, but it's all looking good so far. It's using UNIX on the Mac and Fink especially that really got me around to doing this. So as things are at present I have a GNU/Linux - Windows - Mac setup here. Which makes me sound way more competent with all those OSs than I actually am.

I am thinking of buying a digital camera. I saw a seagull on the grass outside Birmingham cathedral trying to rip pieces of flesh out of two large salmon fish heads, and putting up a good fight in its efforts to do so. Right then i yearned to take several photographs, and the absence of a camera seemed like an itch you long to scratch.
A simple camera, not an SLR-ish one, which I would get had I the funds. The Canon Ixus 50 looks quite nice. At Amazon for around 220 quid. Time to start saving? looking over cameras on the internet gets you into a hell of confusion, I have no idea how to choose. Sites like this one are helpful.