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I’ve gone from gnome to kde and back again many times. I recently decided to try xfce (on ubuntu hardy) on the recommendation of a coworker. It’s been a month now and I don’t plan on switching back. I’m running on older hardware and both gnome and kde were a bit heavy for it, leading [...]

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Much to the dismay of many standards proponents, the OOXML office standard passed the fast track International Standards Organization (ISO) vote last week. For anyone reading this that doesn’t know what this was all about here’s a quick rundown:
Despite the dominant market postion held by Microsoft, some companies had started moving away from using Microsoft [...]

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Installation procedure and issues I used when installing and configuring my dv9610us. Initially, I decided to try opensuse 10.3, which I found frustrating and couldn’t wait to get back to Ubuntu. Anyway, the initial CD installation was no problem. The following is what I did to get all the random pieces like networking and display [...]

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A while ago I blogged about the long process of managing my music on my laptop (opensuse 10.3 with KDE). I’ve been able to trim it down a bit so I thought I’d post my findings in the hope that someone else saves some time and effort. My requirements are simple:

Somewhat painless CD ripping for [...]

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As I blogged about a while ago, I decided to practice what I preach and purchase a digital audio player (DAP) that supports open standards such as OGG and FLAC. I’ve been using it for a couple weeks and now have some actual opinions on the matter. I just plug it into my laptop via [...]

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EDIT: See the updated version of this post here
I have owned an iPod for several years now and love it. It’s a beautifully designed device that has never failed me. However, I find it frustrating to have to use my wife’s Mac to manage my music and since the disk on that Mac was becoming [...]

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I recently registered a couple of domains and though I’ve been happy with dyndns figured I’d try a free DNS service. dnsexit seemed to have what I needed and I was able to get up and running quickly without any issues. I typically use ddclient for sending my updated IP address to dyndns, but since [...]

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Installation procedure I used for installing OpenSuse 10.3 (32-bit) on my HP dv9610us:

Boot to CD, perform install with ethernet connection to get updates/additional packages. This was fairly straightforward, questions were answered as they came, no special setup.
For the broadcom driver, I couldn’t get the one that came with Suse to work so I used [...]

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I have not run Windows on any machine I am responsible for since 2002. This includes all of my home computers (and my wife’s) along with various desktops/laptops I’ve had at work. The first thing I do with a new computer that shows up in my office at work is to download another [...]

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