Category: Linux
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Chat in Thunderbird?
hmm, somehow, when I wasn’t looking, they wedged chat into the Thunderbird email client. Will have to investigate, if I can tear myself away from OSX’s Messages app.
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Linux Hardware Support? Much improved!
I bought my brother an hp printer/copier/fax for xmas (from newegg.com for $39, shipped; stupid Shell Shocker deals.) Between the time I bought the unit and when he got around to unboxing, I also cut his machine over from windows XP (which was beyond hosed with spyware) to Ubuntu. For my brother’s general web browsing…
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FC5: A little progress
Quick update today. Got printing to work. After some googling around, I found lots of advice that the gnome printer config utility was pretty flaky, I blew away my existing CUPS config (generated by the gnome utility) and ran the CUPS config utility (localhost:631 in the browser) straight up. A minute later it spit out…
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Project FC5 Update: 0 for 2
Last night, I had two tasks for my FC5 project: Get a Parallels VM machine for Windows XP rolling.Seemed to kick off OK after having to remember how to use Parallels’ VM setup utility. A false start or two later, and the XP installed seemed to start fine. It did all the normal setup stuff,…
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More Fun with FC5
I’d love to ditch XP completely, but I still have a few things that I need windows for. My master plan is to run FC5 as the primary OS and use XP in a Parallels virtual machine. I’ve messed around with Parallels before on ancient history PC hardware (400MHz PIII, 384Mb) and found it pretty…
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Harddrive Replacement
Monday, I took a day off to concentrate on some chores that never seem to make it off my to do list. On of which was replacing the OS harddrive in my primary PC at home before its impending failure. Starting with a brand new 120Gb ide drive, I figured it would be best to…