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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…

  • One large file

    Today at work someone brought me a DVD, asking if I could print out the drawings that were on it. I’ve done this sort of thing plenty of times before, our printer has 11X17 paper loaded so we get survey and blueprint drawings that need to be printed all the time. The one thing 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…

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    Missed opportunity

    So Angela and I scored some passes to the premiere of Zodiac earlier this week. It was a pretty good, intense, dramatic kind of movie. But I felt like something was missing. See, towards the end of the movie Jake Gyllenhaal’s character becomes completely obsessed with finding out who the Zodiac Killer is, and “solving…

  • I could spend hours

    After seeing this post at USA Today about retro commercials on YouTube, and following all the comments and checking out the commercials, I can only come to one conclusion. I need to spend more time hanging around YouTube. Yeah, I totally grew up seeing that Mount Airy Lodge commercial all the time too, it’s awesome!…