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Monday, May 28, 2012

Gnome3 hates me, so be it

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I am loathe to think that the same people who made Vista what it is could be the same people who are behind the UI changes in Gnome3. It isn...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Mageia 2 Upgrade Success

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I've just completed upgrading my HP Mini1000 Netbook (1GB RAM 60GB HD) using the in-place / seamless upgrade option. Seamless is not the...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Mageia and Mandriva working together but not?

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Two postings by Mageia and Mandriva has signaled a new stage in the relationship between the two entities. This involves not only the...
Friday, May 11, 2012

We have a Springpad Notebook

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I haven't been posting as often as I want to. In fact, I have a Springpad notebook full of unfinished articles. So Rather than dig my...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

How does GroupOn work?

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Logo of Groupon (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) In response to a friend's query, it set me off thinking. Which can be a bad thing ... ...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

The History of Apple in Pictures

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To fully appreciate the history behind Apple, you have to see this gallery of Apple products .  The captions on the side are generally corre...
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Friday, April 13, 2012

Export from Outlook to Thunderbird

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An open mind is like an open road, a journey waiting to happen Never would I thought the road I take would lead me so far astray. But ...
Saturday, April 07, 2012

Choosing an Android Smartphone: My Favorite 5 Android Apps

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Like I said before , half of the battle of owning an Android is choosing the right hardware. The other half is finding useful apps that dou...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

Managing Old Dell servers

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A few Dell servers I am working with were getting long in the tooth. I was worried about their performance so I decided to monitor them more...
Friday, March 16, 2012

Choosing an Android Smartphone: The hardware

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Continued from here . Half of the battle of owning an Android is choosing the right hardware. Tablet or phone? How much memory? How big is ...
Saturday, January 28, 2012

Why Blackberry's fall could be bad for business communications

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The general consensus is that Blackberry is on it's way down. There is some cheer-leading of this to some degree amongst the tech savvy ...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

What the new WebOS foundation can do to make WebOS a success

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HP has done the right thing and is contributing WebOS to the community by making it Open Source. This alone won't guarantee it's lo...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

Blackberry SMTP servers identified as sending Spam?

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Spamhaus.org servers were marking some blackberry SMTP servers are being spam relays or sending out spam. The servers were added to the XB...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

What to do with WebOS now that it's Open Source

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Never stop hoping against hope . WebOS, whose pedigree can be traced back to PalmOS and the popular Palm Pilot series of PDAs (they were min...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Recover from a missing kernel : The Problem

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You read right. A missing kernel. Although this sounds terminal, the fix was fortunately simple enough. If you are in a jam the solution is ...

Recover from a missing kernel : The Solution

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This is part two of two parts. You can read about the problem here . The Solution The solution was simple. I needed to install a new kerne...
Tuesday, November 01, 2011

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The introduction to the comments section on  http://www.ritholtz.com  : Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamil...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Windows vs Linux: Are we still fighting yesterday's war?

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Linux-cluttered-desktop (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) A similarly cluttered Windows desktop. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I use Linux ...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Linux to the Rescue... Again

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The least favorable job a Linux guy can get is... supporting newbie Windows users. While we live in a virus-free, relatively trojan-less en...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Wide Pictures and Bad Packages: A Hugin tale

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I love my Kodak Z1012 . Specifically I love it's in-camera panorama picture auto-stitching feature. I've tried some of the newer cam...
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