wetlands

Even though I live in the middle of a huge city surrouded by development for miles and miles, http://tinyurl.com/deh5h I am often reminded that I am in the middle of wetlands. Yesterday I was walking to work and I saw hordes of gnats massing over the soaked grass. There were about half a dozen dragonflies dive bombing in and out of the cloud sucking the gnats up like a dyson vaccuum cleaner.

tarball?? huh?

Whenever I dowload a new Open Source application, I get the option to get the i86 installer edition, (either .exe or .zip) but there are options there to get the tarball, or the .tar or .gz files. I don't know eough to install these files, but I'd like to know enough. I think I would need to have the appropriate code compilers to make it work. Maybe if I throw this thought out into the ether I will find a answer.

tarball?? huh?

Whenever I dowload a new OSS application, I get the option to get the i86 installer edition, (either .exe or .zip). But there are options there to get the tarball, or the .tar or .gz files. I don't know eough to install these files, but I'd like to know enough. I think I would need to have the appropriate code compilers to make it work. Maybe if I throw this thought out into the ether I will find a answer.