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Calvin: Can you make a living playing silly games? His Dad: Actually, you
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- Bestbuy.com *still* doesn't have the 32GB Asus Transformer (since 5/13 if NowInStock.net is correct ==> mock.ws/s/i). 10 months ago
- Don't drink and tweet: mock.ws/s/h 10 months ago
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Author Archives: Jason Mock
Captive-NTFS on (K)Ubuntu
Here are the steps that I found, that finally resulted in a successful install of captive-ntfs on (k)ubuntu: Install your linux headers (in my case linux-headers-2.6.15-17-686) sudo aptitude install linux-headers-2.6.15-17-686 Install lufs-utils & lufs-source: sudo aptitude install lufs-utils lufs-source Correct … Continue reading
Microsoft Designs the IPod Package
This is what would happen if Microsoft designed the packaging for the Apple iPod:
Correcting a Master Boot Record: 2000/XP
Every day you learn something new. Well today is another one of the days I learned something I wished I had known a long time ago. While I am an avid linux user, I still use Windows for video editing, … Continue reading
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ATI Hasn’t Learned
Just thought I’d point out the fact that ATI obviously hasn’t learned: From OSNews.com – ATI: Unsupported and Bitter “ATI’s R5xx line was first released back in October 2005. The initial launch covered the X1800 and X1300 series, with the … Continue reading
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Gallery 2.1 Release Candidate 1
The Gallery Project released Gallery 2.1 Release Candidate 1 the 10th, and (as always) I’ve upgraded before the stable release is out. For a short while my theme was broken because of changes in the API, however those were easily … Continue reading
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Spill Proof Keyboards
Does anyone know why making keyboards spill-proof isn’t an automatic feature these days?
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Google’s Apps Coming to a Linux?
In a recent article on Desktoplinux.com mentioned that Google, with the help of Codeweavers, is working on bringing some of their apps to linux. While it’s somewhat disappointing to see that Google will resort to the wine run-time engine, as … Continue reading
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Bad Capacitors = Blown Gigabyte GA-7VAXP & Epox 8KHA+
I know it’s been some time since I’ve officially taken care of this problem, however I thought I’d go ahead and post of my dealings with bad capacitors. Both of my motherboards, the GA-7VAXP in my desktop PC, and the … Continue reading
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Meara’s First Tooth
Meara’s first tooth started poking out today. She was kinda starting to worry us this last week as she’s been kind of acting a little out of the norm, which peaked today at a point where she broke out in … Continue reading
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RIAA: Picking Names Out of a Phone Book
Once again it’s time to say that we’ve reached an all time low. One would have thought the bad press that suing a 12 year old girl from the projects would have been enough; however they’ve decided to push the … Continue reading
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