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Call me Crazy, but I miss Linux. I didn't really realize it till today.
Some months ago, My employer bought me a MacBook, and, I _love_ it. Don't get me wrong. About the same time, my at home Desktop (an emachines that had-- seriously-- outlived its life expectancy by about 2 years) ( Read more... )

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Here's a classic example of a misguided dialog box. It's too much information in a square box presented in a series of convoluted noun-phrases.

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So, I got this Mac. It has a lot of software installed on it, and a lot of software that has been unistalled or removed incorrectly.
How do I clean up my right click "Open With..." Menu on OXS?


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A quick follow up on my experience with andLinux

Because of the wacky way that my employer manages its network, andLinux cannot function on my work PC. Sadness. I'll keep plugging away at it, but there appears to be some complicated networking juju going on under the hood that is ( Read more... )

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Hey Kids!This was posted at http://writelarge.com/node/93 first.

It's no secret that I'm not a command line guy. I can make my way through the ocassional cut and paste set of command line instructions, and can even ocassionally come up with a very basic command for doing simple things like sending an email or pulling just the *.png files out of a ( Read more... )

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I spent the better part of the day trying to get the PlayStation EyeToy functioning on Ubuntu. I think I can say I've succeeded. But at the same time, I think I've hit the wall.  The eyetoy camera works. I haven't really messed the microphone, I assume it doesn't work, but that's ( Read more... )

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I just spent a few minutes, literally only a few, tooling around in KDE 4, and I come away with this impression:
Big. Fat. Hairy. Deal.
It's a new skin and slower than molasses. I guess the comparison's that people have been making betwixt KDE4 and Windows Vista are on target.
Now, to ( Read more... )