Updates

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Wireless anyone?

A while back I was talking about wireless problems with my wife’s Compaq laptop. That laptop’s wireless card has never worked well and I mentioned that I was now in the market for a USB wireless dongle for it as I couldn’t find a replacement mini pci-e wireless card that would work. This weekend while […]

LackRack

So you have some servers at home like I do. What do you put them on? Where do you put them? Well, for quite a while I had them sitting on a table, out in the open, right at ear level. Obviously this is not an optimum placement. In fact, it can get downright annoying […]

A Yeti of a different color.

So I sold my Mac Mini and my old Linux desktop machine burns up (cpu temp over 100 celcius). I need a new computer right? Well, the Best Buy run didn’t work out so well, so I started looking at other local stores for somewhere that had a decent laptop / desktop replacement that appeared […]

Best Buy?

More like goodbye… Friday night I go to Best Buy to check out their 17″ Gateway laptop. I bring my trusty Mint Live cd so I can check things out real quick like before I buy the thing. When I get into the store, I am, greeted by one of the blueshirts who asks if […]

Hard (mostly) Weekend.

Wow. Where do I even begin…. A little while back I was talking about getting a new desktop machine, or buying a laptop for a desktop replacement perhaps. Well, I procrastinated and, sure enough, my old desktop machine burned itself up on friday evening and would no longer stay running for more than a few […]

You know you’ve had a bad day when…

You know you’ve had a bad day when you have to use a DRILL to try and fix your wife’s laptop. Oh yeah. My wife’s laptop has been having troubles with crappy wireless for the longest time. Well, I decided I was going to replace her card with a better one. It’s a Compaq Presario […]

Book Review

A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (5th Ed) Wow. Mark Sobell hits another one out of the park. Comprehensive can hardly describe this book, although I am hard pressed to come up with a more appropriate word. This massive volume covers all things Fedora and Redhat, from the common to the […]