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So I bought a laptop.
My employer — heretofore known as the Great White Devil (as coined by Joel Watson of HijinksEnsue) or GWD for short — was giving me some after my request for a RAM upgrade to the impossibly small 512kb that I have now due to the new Encrypted status of my laptop […]

I'm not misinformed enough to proclaim, "nothing changed, it just broke all by itself". But, I don't have any other explanation. My Wireless Card has suddenly stopped working in Linux.
I'm almost certain I didn't have a kernel upgrade or software install in between the last time it worked and now because I remember upgrading all […]

I've been using Skype off and on here and there, but, thanks to it's Linux support, I've decided to make it my primary vehicle for Audio/Video Chatting, especially when away from home.
Skype Me: jimreverend

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I'm not sure if this is specific to the Ubuntu Live based installs, or if this would apply to any Ubuntu installation. However, attempting to install sun-java6-jre (or sun-java5-jre) has left me with a continuous string of errors until I did this…
ln -s / /cow
It seems as though one of the installation scripts has this […]

Thanks to a tip from Bryan, portable Ubuntu is now working for me, though not quite in the same way I envisioned it in the beginning.
I assumed that, in the end, I'd boot a real Linux partition with a real Linux boot loader. However, this is not the case. It seems that my laptop, and […]

As mentioned a few days ago, I'm having problems with Portable Ubuntu. This morning, fed up with my perfectionist ways, I decided to jump through the hoops required to do it the no-brainer way, that Justin suggested. I wish I hadn't.

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Are Wordpress Stats and Google Analytics broken? It seems that the stats I get from one service disagree with the other. And both of those services disagree with my raw sever logs.

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I'm short on time, so you get a quick update.
Celeste was 3 months old over a week ago and I have yet to take her 3 month photos. Bad Daniel. Tonight, maybe. I hope.
From today until Monday we are buuuuuuuusy: Two dinner dates, two lunch dates, a nice little roadtrip with friends, a coffee gathering, […]

I've tried three times now and just can't seem to figure out how to get a portable USB Hard Drive set up in such a way that my PC will boot Ubuntu from it when it is plugged in. I'm a fairly competent guy when it comes to Linux and technology in general. So the […]

I took today off as well knowing I would want to spend some time with Jess and Celeste to make up for the weekend as well as getting my bags unpacked, all my equipment cleaned, and my images at least mostly processed.  It's not starting off well.
First, I realized that my mobile blogging method wasn't […]