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bawk hardy heron is cool bawk
3 Comments · Posted by beerorkid in Beryl / Compiz Fusion, pc/linux, ubuntu
Downloaded ubuntu Hardy alpha 6 for the laptop. It is pretty darn cool from what I have seen. Got wireless, compiz, the new gnome, and firefox 3 on it. Had a bit of an issue with scim messing with my language, but got rid of that. Took me a bit to get the xorg working […]
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” I’d love to have a macbook air. then install linux on it to make it better. “
4 Comments · Posted by beerorkid in pc/linux
There is a battle going on in the comments section of an LJS article. It on bitches.
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restoring the restore partition restored my faith in restoring
3 Comments · Posted by beerorkid in pc/linux, ubuntu
So on our new laptop I had gone through the pain of burning off the restore discs and then wiped the sucker completely clean. I even deleted the partition that contained the restore info. Well a few things did not work out and I decided to start over and thought about getting vista on there […]
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I learned something new today. can I go home now?
4 Comments · Posted by beerorkid in pc/linux
ctrl + shift + T will bring back your last closed tab in firefox. I end up going back into my history for closed tabs many times a day. This is sure to make me even more productive 
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So the weekend was cool getting the USB hard drive to work and the extra internal storage on the computer. I was messing with it because I was fixing a friends computer. I used a linux live CD (ubuntu) to transfer his whole hard drive over to my USB drive. I am privileged to work […]
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I was gifted one of these fine external USB hard drives a while back. It totally saved the day cuz I figured I might as well back up my important data off my network share, then my network share died. Phew…. Since my network share was dead the USB drive got a bunch of use. […]
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Rubix screen saver plugin for compiz fusion
No comments · Posted by beerorkid in Beryl / Compiz Fusion, pc/linux
I love to show my flippy cube to people. My dad was pretty stunned to see it. Well they keep making it cooler and cooler. This is just a screen saver and not all that cool, but they keep coming up with cool stuff and I am pretty excited to see what the future holds. […]
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Jeesh how long ago was it I bought the new laptop? Anyways I spent an entire week worth of evenings and hours on the weekend struggling to get the internal wireless working in ubuntu linux. While looking around and deciding to buy the laptop I did I researched the compatability of a broadcom BCM4310 chip. […]
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