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Never buy a laptop from a hardware store.
Well, wasn’t last night’s post just full of cheerfulness? Must have had a bad case of the uglies going on to come up with something like that.
It’s a better day today though. I get to beat on someone else’s laptop. I always enjoy doing this especially when I get blanket permission from the victim owner [...]
Blogilo. An excuse for a test post
A very small portion of you (Hey, Grandad) know that I’m not using Windows and haven’t been for quite a few months now. I’ve been using (gasp) a Linux Distro.
Yeah, that’s right, I pretty much ditched Windows and stayed on Linux for just about everything I do on my computer. In fact, I haven’t booted [...]
A Bit of Irish on my Desktop
As some of you might know, I’m an old[er] geek. I spent the majority of my adult life feeding my geek so to speak what with having nearly 30 years in some sort of computer related field or another. And now that my disabilities have removed me, temporally or permanently, from the work force my [...]
Tagged linux distros, linux Mint 8, ubuntu karmic
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Reviving the Dead | Part III
There was a delay in getting part III of this mind numbing series out due to certain unforeseen circumstances which I’m not going to tell you about. Some things just shouldn’t be mentioned online.
Sounds good doesn’t it?
Due to the above mentioned delay I have decided to sum up what happened after evicting all the illegitimate [...]
Reviving the Dead | Part II
In our last episode, the hero, (meaning me) after being dived bombed by a previously unknown alien life form that had been dwelling within the unclean recesses of a dead PC, had just lowered his cardboard shield and fishing net in preparation for his first peek into the guts of his wife’s computer. We pick [...]
Reviving the Dead | Part I
If you happen to recall, my wife’s trusty old custom built PC had a stroke the other day and never recovered. Or to be more specific, the original 6 year old load of XP Pro, in spite of regular daily cleaning and defragging, finally bit the big one. Lucky for us we had recently purchased [...]
Trying to revive the dead
There’s been a death in the household in the form of my wife’s venerable old desktop. She built it herself back in 2003 while earning her degree inComputer Systems Management (hers was the only one that booted up on the first try out of the entire class I might add). Two nights ago the OS [...]
The Geek Wins in the End
It happened again
It happened just like it always happens and I’ve finally had to admit defeat. I’ve finally come to the conclusion that resistance is indeed futile and there’s no sense any longer in fighting it. I’m simply at that point in life where battling my own nature is a useless endeavor. I mean hell…I’m [...]
