Yesterday, I reported that my new Ubuntu 9.10 install on my new Acer Aspire 4810T had a couple of problems: one major and the other one minor. Well, as of this posting, both seem to be fixed! Sleep, what the peecee laptop community calls “suspend” and “hibernate,” did not work. The CD/DVD drive did not [...]
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Going Linux: First Observations
Yesterday, I purchased my first peecee laptop to use for my daily “work.” It’s a surrogate for a broken MacBook Pro that’s running Ubuntu 9.10. After an evening of playing, I have some initial impressions, both of the machine and Ubuntu. First the good stuff. It is quick, even on my Acer Aspire 4810T’s single-core [...]
The Switch (Kind Of)
I’ve been a Mac user since the late-eighties. Yet, today I bought my first PC (sort of). The Mac OS and Apple computers is still my platform of choice, but I am an all-around computer enthusiast. I don’t mess with M$ Windoze (an inferior product mixed with a corporation’s questionable business practices keep me far [...]
Cox Blocked
I’m about to give up. I know that’s what they want me to do. Between MSC turning off POP and IMAP, their trying to ram WebCT/Vista down my throat, and now trouble with my Cox, my technological endeavors have been stymied as of late. Over the weekend, I brought my dead sever home from campus. [...]