Exploring What's Outside The Box
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In our world of instant access to everything, now and then we see news clips where someone somewhere managed to record something regarding a newsworthy event, such as a plane crash, a cool car, silly cat or whatever. In some of these cases, the clips end up on the news. Last night, as I was […]
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So far, Jaunty is working pretty good and I haven’t run into any potential problems yet. I’m still investigating to see if some of the problems I had with 8.10 have been resolved or not and the verdict is still out on that. However, one cool thing I really like with Jaunty is the new […]
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Friday night, after letting all downloads finish during the day Friday, my upgrade from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 was finally complete. It worked out without any problems at all, which is more than I can say for 8.10. Now what? Well, so far everything seems to work. I’m just curious if what didn’t before works […]
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Ubuntu 9.04, AKA Jaunty Jackalope, is out! I had initially decided to hold off a bit before upgrading but after reading some initial very positive reviews I figured that what the heck, let’s go for it. Having said that, my laptop, a Dell XPS 1530 is now upgrading. I will of course post any issues […]
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If you’re a Facebook user and a Blackberry owner, you truly have a very fantastic combination. A fantastic phone that can deliver new Facebook messages and updates as they arrive. If you’re a Faceook user and a Windows Mobile owner, things haven’t been looking that bright and there hasn’t always been quality software to give […]
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It seems like Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex just came out not long ago and here we are, just days away from the release of Jaunty Jackalope. Another upgrading cycle begins. Now, although I’m quick to embrace new versions, I’ll be doing my upgrades in steps. Since I have two computers currently running Ibex, I’ll be […]
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Those of you fortunate enough to own a Blackberry are well familiar with the portability and easy access of social networks on the platform. Access to MySpace and Facebook is easy and convenient and I know I have been looking for away to get similar access on my Windows Mobile device. I think I might […]
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Those of you that use Ubuntu with any regularity might have run into the very annoying instance of always having to enter the root password when running certain commands with sudo. For me, I use a LAMPP server on my computer to test scripts and such locally and I installed the LAMPP control panel, a […]
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I mentioned in my previous post how I stumbled over DirecTV2PC while trying to get some of the media sharing functionality of the DirecTV receiver to work. Well, I have taken a bit of time to download and try it out and I have to say it works remarkably well. In a nutshell, DirecTV2PC does […]
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A little over a month ago, we decided to drop out local phone company as our phone carrier (we don’t use local phone service anymore), Internet carrier (go wireless!) and TV provider, mostly because we were able to shave about $75 of our monthly bill in regards to these specific services. I’m very happy with […]
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