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The site move is complete

I moved this and a few other domains to a new server last night. All seems goods for the most part. The only issue I’ve come across so far is that the photo gallery is not working. I will have to deal with it tonight.

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Gwibber

What is Gwibber? Well, quoted from their website: Gwibber is an open source microblogging client for GNOME developed with Python and GTK. It supports Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca, Facebook, and Digg. I only learned of this app ths morning, but was interested in checking it out because if it’s new support for identi.ca. I’ve constructed a [...]

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Up and running on Ubuntu 7.10 RC1

Well, I was able to use the live cd and get the the system installed with no issues, unlike my last experience with Beta 3. Everything with this release is looking pretty good. Although, I still think Ubuntu performance is pretty slow compared to some other distros. I’m really looking forward to the final release [...]

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I got Gutsy Beta to install, but I had to use the alternative install CD

After redownloading the live install CD and verifying MD5SUMs, the install still hung at the partitioner stage. So I downloaded the  alternative install image and was able to get it to install. Since installing, I haven’t had a single stability issue with it. It’s looking like a nice update to Feisty, but overall I wouldn’t [...]

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ATI open sourcing their Radeon drivers

For us who use Linux and are stuck with ATI cards in our laptops, this comes as great and welcome news!  AMD briefed Linux.com this morning on a pending announcement regarding the open sourcing of drivers for ATI graphics cards. It’s official — AMD will make code and specifications for ATI graphics cards available on [...]

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I saw you searching for Kenosha Linux

I was reviewing my referer logs this morning and saw that someone came here searching google for Kenosha Linux. Now that person is either searching for a distribution call Kenosha Linux, or more than likely looking info on other people in Kenosha who use Linux. Well, you found one. Feel free to contact me if [...]

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Debian Package of the Day » Blog Archive » agave: Design colour schemes the easy way

Debian Package of the Day » Blog Archive » agave: Design colour schemes the easy way

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Finally have a working Arch Linux install

For some reason, I’m really drawn to Arch Linux. I’ve used it in the past(probably a couple of years ago), with decent success. However, recently I’ve been wanting to try it again, but am having many issues. I won’t go in to the issues I’m having, yet, as I haven’t researched deeply in to them, [...]

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Permissions error using VirtualBox

I downloaded and installed VirtualBox on my Debian Etch laptop and I experienced a permissions error the first time I tried to start a virtual machine, however it worked fine running as root. The fix is easy and was found in the FAQ of the VirtualBox website. If you get a message saying “VirtualBox kernel [...]

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apt-get install filezilla

I just learned today that my favorite FTP client in Windows is now available for Linux in the form of their upcoming release. I was pretty stoked when I learned of this, because gftp is alright, but it ain’t great. Since I run Debian, I did a simple apt-get install filezilla and wham-o, there it [...]

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