Monthly Archives: October 2006

Kiff, We Have A Conundrum!

By C.G. | Published: October 29, 2006

So my wife, hot on the heels of getting her 24″ iMac, asked me if I wanted to stop into Tekserve, the real place to shop for Mac hardware in New York City, while walking around town. We had bought her new computer there and, knowing that I am very much interested in the Mac [...]

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Ubuntu Update

By C.G. | Published: October 27, 2006

I did finally get my Ubuntu workstation upgraded to 6.10 and it works just fine.  I finally got the fast, 64-bit OS with Firefox 2.0 and working video drivers.  Now I just have to figure out how it install Adobe Flash and then I might not need to get a Mac Mini… …WHAT AM I [...]

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Re-Install Log

By C.G. | Published: October 26, 2006

Ok… I’m chronicling my re-install effrorts because it isn’t going as smoothly as I would want it to. 9:59: Re-install attempt number two is, so far, going well after the first attempt failed. For some reason, the partitioner couldn’t install the OS after it changed the partitions. A reboot seemed to help. 10:17: HD install [...]

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Eft’ing Sucks!

By C.G. | Published: October 26, 2006

I tried to upgrade my Ubuntu computer to the latest Edgy Eft and man was that a bad idea. First, I tried to install the server so my wife could learn PHP and toy with AJAX. The install went smooth but when I was done and rebooted… Nothing. Just some error 15. With my normal [...]

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Firefox 2.0

By C.G. | Published: October 25, 2006

Ok, Ok, I did it. Just like everyone else, I upgraded my Ubuntu’s web browser from FF 1.5.7 (or whatever the latest release was) to 2.0. And like everyone else in the world, I agree that it was a minimal upgrade on the surface but, for me anyway, it was a total revamp. I’m glad [...]

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