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- Samsung Vibrant GPS fixes, rooting, and replacing the default launcher. Priceless! Now lets see CM 6.1 :-) 2010/09/01
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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Lunch with the guys
Just a quick note or two and this is odd… I don’t remember the last blogpost I wrote on a weekday morning; but I found myself waiting for a backup to finish with a new program I’m trying out. Backing … Continue reading
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Final Intel Pentium 4 went bye
Big occasion!! I was able to retire my final desktop P4 system and now have AMD64 upper end systems on my desktops. I’m running either Ubuntu 7.10 or Debian Lenny and things are pretty good. I tried to get Mepis … Continue reading
Take Two on setting goals
After posting about my recent goal achievement on weight loss, it came to me that the things I learned can be applied to other challenges. In a nutshell, what I learned was to: Set a reasonable goal and define it … Continue reading
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The One Nine Oh
Well, about a year ago I started this journey. At that point, I weighed 275 pounds and I had just started working at Visa, Inc. I was serously overweight and perhaps on my way to a variety of health problems. … Continue reading
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The Smaller Tools
I’m always curious what folks use to get something done. Consider a few basic tools that many Linux people take for granted that don’t exist on Windows unless special dispensation is done. I’m talking about rsync and screen. So what … Continue reading
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Lunches, Meetings, Fun
I was lucky last week to go have lunch with my friend Jeremy from the Levanta days. We went over to Left Bank Bistro in San Mateo for a well-deserved lunch, talk, and a really strange meetup. What was so … Continue reading
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The best OS in 64bit land
Actually the best is the one that suits your needs the most; but I’ve tried a few recently since I’ve moved mostly to a AMD64 set of systems and away from costly Intel Pentiums. I can buy two cheaper AMD … Continue reading
Linux on the Desktop — Fact, Fiction, Fantasy?
Slashdot carries a story about whether Apple is sentencing doom for desktop Linux. Look it up here and see what you think. I’ll tell you my take. Linux on the desktop is beset by a few problems which seem to … Continue reading
First Week of 08 – Political Intrigue, Onwards, Changes
I’ve been at work at Visa for almost 10 months now and its been a very interesting ride and I’ve enjoyed the level of challenge. I have to admit to feeling a sense of change that overwhelms me every so … Continue reading
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Older Portable MP3 Players – A biography…
Recently, I went down this path of wanting to find hard disk mp3 players which would offer a few uses that would not require some dedicated program to install. Here are a few of the finalists and some disclosures: Iriver … Continue reading