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What’s (not) in my bag..

Friday, May 22, 2009

I have a flight in the morning, so thought I would clean out my backpack a bit and lighten the load, and it dawned on me after unloading that I should take a picture to embarrass remind myself to keep it minimal.. Lifehacker has been running a “What’s in our bags” series, and the [...]

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Clean Debian Lenny KDE Install (cont.)

Friday, January 2, 2009

Well, since I didn’t have a whole lot of time invested in my install as in the previous post, and since I did not quickly sort out why the heck I could not suspend/lock with the KDE power manager widget, I thought I would give the weekly build of the Lenny KDE install disk a [...]

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Clean Debian Lenny KDE Install

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

(and quite a bit of biography..)
Over the years, I have had a lot of fun with highly customized Linux installs for my desktop and laptop computing, but in the last 3-4 years, I have grown to enjoy the simplicity of sticking as close to the default configuration of ${MY_CAREFULLY_SELECTED_DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT}, only making a few minor changes [...]

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Silly VFAT Filesystem..

Friday, November 14, 2008

Case-sensitivity is painful with VFAT.. I would have put a real filesystem on my new external hard drive, but I thought it would be nice to plug it into anyone’s box and be able to read/write.. Syncing up my audio directory failed when many upper-case ‘CD1′, ‘CD2′, etc directories were created in lower-case, [...]

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My new “E” and kayaks

Thursday, March 13, 2008

I have had my 2006 Element for about 4 months and hadn’t posted anything about it – it is definitely a cool vehicle that will get lots of good use
I got a little Pelican Burst for Christmas, and a couple days ago we bought a Apex 129T to go along with it. [...]

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