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It has been a while since I have written about my recent hardware upgrade. I have it pretty well setup like I like now. The purchase has been a great success. I could not have touched what I bought for less than $2,000 and I got it for less than half that including upgrading to [...]

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I recently purchased an external DVD reader because I wanted to have more flexibility to do things with my ASUS eee.
I was able to give the ASUS a good workout on the recent Royal Caribbean cruise I went on. One of the things I didn’t care for all that much was the Xandros OS system [...]

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After using the new openSUSE 11.1 and KDE 4.2 system for several days, I decided another update was in order. While KDE 4.2 has been officially released by the KDE org, it is available by openSUSE in what they call a factory library. Non the less, openSUSE considers if a stable environment.
I took a diversion [...]

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All Problems Solved

I am happy to report that all of the problems that I had with my new system, have been solved. I am pleased with the appearance and the performance of KDE 4.2.

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When I get bored, I do things I might not do otherwise. Like I said in a previous post, my daughter’s enthusiasm about her new PC made me want to make my PC look a little more up to date. I really hadn’t intended to upgrade to KDE 4.x until openSUSE 11.2 came out, I [...]

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If you are wondering why the lull in posts, there are several reasons. However, the most notable is my because my daughter got a new PC and she was bragging on it’s speed and all the glitz.
That made me take a look at my main system and it pushed me into migrating to the current [...]

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A Word To The Wise

I am currently trying to retrieve photos for an individual off of a dieing laptop. It was a Windows XP system and will not boot even in the “Safe Mode”.
My assumption is that the OS has become corrupted. Reinstalling Microsoft would require loosing all data on the hard drive.
I tried removing the hard drive and [...]

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openSUSE 11.1 is out

I am in the process of downloading the latest release of openSUSE. I have been running release 11.0 for some time and openSUSE 11.1 is now out.
I am using the torrent method to get both the 32-bit and 64-bit DVDs. Both are over 4 gigabytes in size and transferring that much data is subject to [...]

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UBUNTU and The Man Behind It

It has been a while since I have written anything related to Linux. Today, I stumbled on this interview with Mark Shuttleworth, the man behind UBUNTU. I have been using nothing but Linux for a few years now. Probably the most important person to the rabip growth of Linux users is Mark Shuttleworth. When he [...]

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Apple Upgrade

I recently upgraded the software in my Apple Mac Mini. I didn’t need to change the system. I just did it because I found a cheap copy of Leopard on Ebay. I purchased Leopard for $68.00, including shipping to my Florida mail forwarding address. Then it cost $9.50 to get it to Airbox Express in [...]

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