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Things just work
It’s been 6 or 7 weeks since I’ve posted anything to this blog. And there’s a reason for that — absolutely nothing has happened that’s caused me to have to change anything about the Ubuntu installation on my laptop. It’s just working perfectly.
So perfectly, actually, that I nabbed 20GB of spare hard disk space on [...]
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Windows free LAN
I mentioned a day or two back that bitbucket (our Win2K3 server) was about to be turned off after migration of its data and services to our Ubuntu desktop. Well, it’s been done. The LAN has no more Windows machines on it.
Actually, that’s not quite true, because the Inspiron 9400 is setup for WinXP/Ubuntu dual [...]
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Changes afoot
I’ve had wonderful success with Ubuntu over the last month. There have been no posts for nearly 3 weeks, because nothing exceptional or worth mentioning has happened. It just works.
Based on this success I’m planning the most drastic change to our local network that I’ve made for quite some time. We’ve essentially got 3 machines [...]
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Introductions
I’ve been a Linux user since the good old days of Slackware 0.91. That’s a while ago now. Sadly, my day job pays me to use Microsoft products, so for a long time Linux has been something of an occasional escape. I’ve got a slight change of landscape coming up though, so it’s time to [...]
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