Monthly Archives: May 2007

Curious little chroot facts

Since I’ve been blogging the body Linux and Debian for awhile, I found a few little things which I really wanted to fix in my ia32 chroot environment.  These are probably documented elsewhere, but since Linux is my plaything in … Continue reading

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Secondary Notes on Debian Sid and AMD64

A record of sorts of my ongoing adventures getting things working at a level where the system can be used as a desktop.  I bought a cute little Brother MFC device which does it all at a good price point.  … Continue reading

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My AMD64 Box, Edgy, Debian Sid

Well, for some reason today, when I got a new kernel on my Edgy AMD64 boxen, it gave up and would not boot.  I got a whole bunch of libc6 errors so I booted to an earlier kernel and it … Continue reading

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Thoughts on Linuxworld, Tradeshows, etc

I signed up for Linuxworld San Francisco this year again to only see the exhibition.  I don’t think I’ve ever gone to listen to the papers or presentations. If I want to go listen to Linux papers, I tend to … Continue reading

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Busy Last Few Days…

Work has been keeping me busy through the days.  Then  I come home and mess around with Linux and stuff.  Its nice to have the separation point where there is work and at work there are work things.  I use … Continue reading

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The way back machine

Some bit of time ago, I read Dan York’s retrospective on blogging and it got me thinking about things.  I then started wondering when I wrote on Advogato first time. Turns out it was September 2001.  I then went forward … Continue reading

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More on Feisty and Laptops

I’ve been blogging a bit of late around Linux because these days I come home from work at this financial institution and I’m tired of using Windows XP, Outlook, and XP’s wierd and wacky networking.  Sometimes I watch my Dell … Continue reading

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Why Hilf Doesn’t Matter

I read over this post which talks about a few points he has made regarding whether Linux is alive or dead, whether Torvalds has a job, whether Linux was only due to Apache, mysql, SugarCRM. You know what? Hilf does … Continue reading

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Ubuntu Feisty and Suspend/Resume

I have my Thinkpad T40 pretty well setup now with applications and updates and have added the little extras I want. As I noted previously, I did a fresh install of Feisty on a 160g Seagate laptop drive which shows … Continue reading

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Saturdays are Meant For…

Here it is Saturday and no work. My current work is quite pleasurable and I was just telling my friend Ed, I feel for the first time in some time, happily engaged with what I’m called upon to do. I … Continue reading

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