Monthly Archives: June 2006

What is Linux?

June 21, 2006
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I like reading the news. I do. You can say I am a news junkie. Not only politics, but technews, sportnews, science, you name it, I read it. My blogroll is full of tech related feeds. So I was surprised to read the following piece about SCO: SCO To Unix Developers: We Want You...

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Tellas

June 18, 2006
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Update: I have left tellas for ote, the state telecom company. Much better, more reliable service, though slightly more expensive.Update ends. No, it’s not a mythical Greek monster or literary creation, but my isp. And since yesterday, the host of John’s Rented Corner in Cyberspace. Apparently, portland communications either have troubles or have removed...

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Dapper rulez!

June 14, 2006
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Dapper rulez!

Yes, I know just a few hours ago I was complaining about the work I had to do in setting up dapper drake 6.06 LTS. I am happy to say that everything works fine now. My box (where I am blogging this posting) is an old but reliable one: QDI 9 mobo, PIII @...

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Dapper snafu

June 14, 2006
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Having some time to spend, I decided to upgrade my old home box to the newer ubuntu 6.06 lts (aka dapper drake). I have been a happy ubuntu user for some time now and I really feel that ubuntu is a wonderful collective effort. My setup is rather old but trustworthy. It installed the...

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Monemvasia by picasa

June 13, 2006
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Monemvasia by picasa

On an amd64 box, no less Since picasa was made available for linux i386 distros, I was one of the many who took advantage and installed it. I also found out that picasa works wonderfully even when running in a amd64 environment. As I have outlined in an earlier posting, amd64 users could easily...

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Tuesday June Sixth

June 5, 2006
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Tuesday June Sixth

Or, since numbers are more elegant in detailing the unique points of our view(s), today’s date is 06/06/06. Tuesday, June 6th or the 6th of June or simply 06/06/06. Unlike, an earlier posting in this blog which could have been interpreted differently based on one’s location on the globe and one’s reading of the...

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