Monthly Archives: September 2010

Petey

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Jason Mock

This last weekend we finally made the plunge and rescued a dog.  Because our daughter had been asking for a dog since she was four, we’d been researching breeds for some time to get an idea of which ones would … Continue reading →

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Software Freedom Day 2010 @ Dallas Makerspace Pictures

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Jason Mock

On Saturday evening I had the pleasure of attending the Software Freedom Day event held and sponsored by Dallas Makerspace.  This actually marks the first Open Source / Linux related event that I’ve had a chance to attend since I’ve moved to … Continue reading →

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Screen Flicker on a Dell Inspiron 1545 Running Linux

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Jason Mock

I keep running into a screen flicker that occurs on my Dell Inspiron 1545 whenever I run almost any distribution of Linux.  I keep forgetting what fixes the issue, and it always takes me a few minutes to look-up, so … Continue reading →

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Link of the Day

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Jason Mock

In the past couple of days, I’ve been reading through a great interview that Artima Developer held with Guido Van Rossum in 2002 about Python.  I would highly recommend this interview to anyone either interested in software development, or the … Continue reading →

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To Update or Not To Update

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Jason Mock

In recent years I’ve honestly tried not to blog about blogging (metablogging, which is described as ‘Murder’ by Steve Atwood), but unfortunately that’s a lot of what I’ve been dealing with lately.  My latest foray has been in correcting a lot … Continue reading →

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