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New Digital Digs

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Got a new laptop to replace the aging Toshiba I had before. I’m now dealing with Windows Vista on the new machine after years of using XP. It seems I have the horsepower to run Vista reliably and so far its been good. I think I’ll take the old one and slap Ubuntu Linux on it, [...]

Ubuntu Project on Hold

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Hit a snag with my Ubuntu laptop testing program. I’ve really booogered up the installation by trying to convert it to Kubuntu (using the KDE window manager instead of Gnome). Somehow I got parts of version 4.0 and 3.51 running together and the whole thing is hosed. Thought I knew what I was doing, “A little [...]

Tired Of Being Cold

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Got assigned a load around noon to pickup a load in Illinois. the drive from Ohio took a while as the weather was not helpful. When I finally got there, about a half-hour before closing, I was told the load could not be released because whoever paid for it was still a few dollars short. [...]

Freezing Rain

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Woke of this morning to the sound of frozen rain tapping on the fiberglass roof of my truck. Has to crank up the truck and defrost my windows before I could take off.  Then it was 15-20 mph up I-75 until I ran into better weather about 50 miles up the road.  No big deal really, [...]

First Look: Linux on my laptop

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A long time ago and far, far away… (ugh) I was messing around with a very basic version of Linux, the free Unix clone on a Frankenstein PC I’d built up.  I wasn’t much impressed and soon forgot all about it.  Recently I got the itch to look at it again and downloaded a free distribution [...]