Chiriquí Chatter

I shut the PC down earlier this even and all was normal. I decided I would check my email just one more time before bed and when the opening screen came up it was EDUBUNTU. I have no idea what happened to make the system think it was the education version.
After I entered my user [...]

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It appears that the scanner I have (CanoScan LIDE 20) is not currently working on the latest version of UBUNTU. I found the following thread related to my problem.
I think that is the last piece of hardware I need to figure out how to use before I can consider this move to Linux a success.
If [...]

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42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

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UBUNTU seems to be running well. At the present, I can’t think of anything that I could do with Windows XP that I can´t do on UBUNTU. Of course many things are done differently and those things are taking me time to learn. What is amazing is how much capability I have from a free [...]

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The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap.

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This evening I met with Darío Quiroz and some of his students that were having a conversation English practice session, Now and then Darío likes to bring in someone from outside to give the students an opportunity to hear other accents.
Here is the first group I met with along with Darío and another teaching friend [...]

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Another event for you to place on your June 3rd calender:
Gardeners Club of Chiriquí (Club de Jardineria de Chiriquí)
Invites to the
Green Fair
Sunday 3rd of June 2007
10:00a.m.
At the park behind the Municipio of David.
Near to the Hotel Nacional
More than 15 Plant nursery
Food, beverage & deserts cook and prepare by the members of the
Gardeners Club
Lecture
Games and activities [...]

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I received the following email today, which may be of interest to many of you:
Hi,
We, Gone Fishing Panama Resort, are having the first annual Boca Chica Fishing Tournament to benefit the Boca Chica Elem. School on June 2 and 3rd. The 3rd is the prize ceremony. We expect a good turn out and [...]

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You know the old saying, “If its not one thing, then its another”. It appears that some strange anomaly is now attacking my primary PC. This is really strange. It takes forever to boot and then hangs saying some USB drive (none are connected) could not be found and to press F1 to continue. After [...]

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He, who laughs last, thinks slowest.

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