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Comment on Laws of the land by DrDruid

31. March 2006

Here’s another one: 13: Just because you don’t know how it works, doesn’t mean it’s broken. Click the icon, share the link:

Laws of the land

31. March 2006

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From this point on and until further notice, the following international laws are in effect: Before being allowed to access the Internet, any person wishing to gain access to the Internet must pass a comprehensive grammar and punctuation test in their native tongue. If your computer misbehaves [...]

Automatix - or how to make Ubuntu work for you

30. March 2006

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here's a quick bit on how to install Automatix. It’s a great script that will handle tons of stuff for you, like installing opera, or upgrading firefox and thunderbird. It also handles installing all codecs and a ton of other stuff. To install it, type or cut/paste the following two lines of code: wget http://beerorkid.com/automatix/automatix_5.7-3_i386.deb sudo dpkg [...]

Comment on So I have VM Player. . . now what? by arsgeek

30. March 2006

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LOL - which one are you talking about? The Ubuntu label? I don’t make ‘em, I just download ‘em. Click the icon, share the link:

Comment on So I have VM Player. . . now what? by Scott L

30. March 2006

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Could that picture you chose possibly be more homogonized? Click the icon, share the link:

Linkydink - Slashdot | Beginning Ubuntu Linux

29. March 2006

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Here's a good review on what looks to be an interesting book about learning linux via Ubuntu. geek out. Click the icon, share the link:

So I have VM Player. . . now what?

29. March 2006

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So you've gone and downloaded VMplayer and you have it on your linux/windows machine. Now what do you do with it? Well, you can download vm's by doing a google search and simply getting the images, or you can use a nifty tool called qemu to create virtual disks, and then use VM [...]

VMPlayer on Ubuntu (debian) Linux

28. March 2006

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I've been toying around with VMPlayer a little bit over the past week or so and it's a whole lot of fun. I've gotten to check out a number of operating systems I wouldn't normally have the chance to look at without constantly wiping and reloading a machine. I won't go into writing a tutorial [...]

Bored? Get the Gimp!

27. March 2006

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Last night I was fooling around with the Gimp. Now I know that images of Pulp Fiction are probably streaming through your consciousness right now, but I am referring to the open source image manipulation software known as Gimp. I installed a whole bunch of plugins and scripts and started messing about with them on [...]

Comment on SpaceX Static engine firing. Way cool. by arsgeek

25. March 2006

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Update: The rocket fell down, went boom. Ah well, better luck next time! Click the icon, share the link:

Comment on The end of MS Office as we know it? by arsgeek

24. March 2006

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Update: Doesn’t seem to like Office 2004 on the Mac all that much, but you can save it as formats other than *.doc, which may work okay. Click the icon, share the link:

The end of MS Office as we know it?

24. March 2006

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Michael Robertson (of linspire, gizmoproject and various other projects) announced today that his new company is launching a new, web only based app that will replace Microsoft Office.Â AjaxWrite looks pretty cool.Â We’ll have to see how it really performs in the market, but here are a few perks that I can see after testing [...]

SpaceX Static engine firing. Way cool.

23. March 2006

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SpaceX, a company hell-bent for 0 g is making huge strides in getting their Falcon launch system up and running. They had a successful static firing of Falcon 1 on March 21. They plan on doing their first launch, bringing a sattlelite to low earth orbit on Friday at 1pm PST. Why is [...]

Comment on New heights of geek by geekel

23. March 2006

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Speaking of various operating systems, I thought you might enjoy my little bro’s latest (3/20) blog entry: http://www.davemosher.com/blog/index.html I found it quite humorous (in a pitiful sort of way). Click the icon, share the link:

Why you shouldn’t piss off the geeks

22. March 2006

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I can think of many reasons why you should keep your geeks well-fed, stocked with computer parts and relatively happy. Here’s one concrete reason why you shouldn’t piss them off. I use this only as an example. The folks involved are all geeks themselves and no one was really pissed off, as [...]

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Comment on Laws of the land by DrDruid

Laws of the land

Automatix - or how to make Ubuntu work for you

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Comment on So I have VM Player. . . now what? by Scott L

Linkydink - Slashdot | Beginning Ubuntu Linux

So I have VM Player. . . now what?

VMPlayer on Ubuntu (debian) Linux

Bored? Get the Gimp!

Comment on SpaceX Static engine firing. Way cool. by arsgeek

Comment on The end of MS Office as we know it? by arsgeek

The end of MS Office as we know it?

SpaceX Static engine firing. Way cool.

Comment on New heights of geek by geekel

Why you shouldn’t piss off the geeks

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