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Microtek X6 scanner
This morning, for this first time in living memory, I had to scan a document.
The only scanner I’ve got is an old Microtek X6 SCSI device. I’ve got Ubuntu running on a desktop machine here as well as the Inspiron 9400, so I found and installed an appropriate SCSI card (an Adaptec 2940, FWIW) in [...]
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Eclipse really, really annoys me
I’m pretty much ready to give up on Eclipse for my Linux+Java development work. It’s too flakey. As much as I’d like to work in a modern Java IDE with all the refactoring goodness they bring to the party it’s just too unstable for me to use. It might work in other parallel universes, but [...]
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Eclipse frustration
It’s not an Ubuntu issue per se, but I’ve been really frustrated trying to get Eclipse setup and working correctly. It’s the first time I’ve seriously looked at Eclipse. The idea of a universal platform that your development tools plug into is good in principle, but I’m not convinced it’s there just yet. I’ve been [...]
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Scorecard
I figure one of the things I should baseline is what I use the laptop for.
I’ve got five machines at my disposal:
This laptop, dual booting WinXp and Ubuntu 7.04. Take it with me most places.
A work issued laptop running WinXp. Carried between work and home.
A desktop running WinXp. Lives at home.
A desktop running Fedora Core [...]
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