Tech

  • So far, so good

    Looks like the patching for DST has worked out well for our office. Of course, we won’t really know until tomorrow morning when those folks who never restarted their PC’s to get patched, despite numerous requests to do just that since we made the patches part of an AD startup script, show up and freak…

  • GTD and Wiki

    I’ve been playing around a bit tonight. First with MonkeyGTD, a TiddlyWiki desinged around the GTD methodology. I’ve been playing with version 2.1 alpha, which is hugely powerful, hugely confusing, and still hugely undone. It’s taken me the better part of an hour just to wrap my head around the concept, and understand how to…

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    Linux on the desktop

    Part of my desire to use Ubuntu on this desktop was to see just how far Linux on the desktop has come since the last time I tried it out. (On top of just learning some more about using Linux in general.) So I’ve been keeping a very close eye on just how often I…

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    Setting up new desktop

    Yes, I talked about it when I had a snow day, but the bad CD drive kept me from actually doing it, so today, finally with some free time, I started the install of Ubuntu 6.10 on the old desktop machine I had gotten from work. Install went fine, got all 138 software updates, and…