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Happy Birthday Bro
Just wanted to say happy birthday to my brother, Martin. He turned 15 today… this year he borrows my computer to play games. Next year, he will want to borrow my car. Just you wait and see.
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Installing a Boxed Darwinia on Linux
Today I bought a boxed copy of Darwinia from Best Buy. I was pleasantly surprised that it came with a keychain of a Darwinian and poster. Another surprise was the reduction of the price from $29.99 CAD to $9.99 CAD. What dismayed me was that I could not run the Linux installer on the CD.…
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Settling in with the Gutsy [BETA]
For past few days I have been beta testing Kubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon. Overall, I have this beta release running on my main production system without too much breakage. By the time the real release occurs, most users will be grateful for a stable, reliable and increasingly user friendly release of Kubuntu. Update Nightmares Having…
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Slight Delay in Review
I regret to inform you, that the second part of the review of the Kubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” beta release will be delayed until Monday. I had a great deal of work today, and I will away tomorrow. I started writing up the review. But I need some more time to thoroughly look at the…
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Initial Impressions of Kubuntu 7.10 Gutsy [BETA]
Yesterday, I updated my main desktop system to Kubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon. This release adds a number of exciting and useful features to Kubuntu. While not a revolutionary feature set, this new release promises to evolve Linux as a desktop OS. So, for the next few days I plan on experimenting and reviewing this new…
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The Madness Caused by Hot Weather
Its true. Hot weather can make things to awry. The laptop that hoped to finish today, needed a reinstall due to a bad partition scheme. I ran out of room for /. And had too much for /home. Sigh. Now the wireless card seems to… not wanting to work. Its irritating. Just as irritating as…
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Laptop Ubuntued and the Quest for Desktop Searching
After my lengthy post on the issues of installing Ubuntu on my Toshiba Satellite 2410 laptop, I am pleased with the results. I managed to fix the suspend issue that plagued me with this post. So I am almost ready to “give back” the laptop to my brother. After hearing yesterday about the Google XXS…
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The Penguin and the Rusty Wrench
Day 2 of installing Ubuntu Linux 7.04 on my brother’s Toshiba Satellite 2410 laptop. I have done this before, but boy is this irritating. I mistakingly took the wrong approach of installing all the applications that he would need/want before doing a thorough hardware check. So after I ran into the infamous “poltergeist” problem of…
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Penguin Redux
This week swept by at a crazy pace. Did not get much headway in my long term project, because I had to deal with too many urgent issues. Hopefully thats over. Before I left for Europe, I wanted to install Linux on my brother’s laptop (Toshiba Satellite 2410). But I ran out of time then.…
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Let the Mad Scribblings
It took me some time. But now I am ready. I caught up with most of backlog of work, and now I can finally sit down and work on something productive. After much debate, and internal conflict I brought myself to writing a novel. Its a new idea that spawned in my brain, early this…