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100th post & various short stories
Incredible, isn’t it? This is the 100th post! Also a curious thing: in both October an November I had 39 posts (I didn’t plan it and didn’t observe it until I moved over to the beta Blogger and started tinkering with the customization of my blog). What follows are some small bits of information: A…
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If you dot’ succeed at first…
try harder. I was trying to get Ubuntu (6.10) to hibernate, without much success (remember, I’m a Linux newbie). One of the side effects of the experiment was that Ubuntu did not recognize my swap partition any more (probably because during the hibernation-attempt it was overwritten with some random data from memory). If you find…
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Updating Ubuntu to Edgy Eft
Finally I’ve gotten around to updating to Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10). My first remarks were: The download is quite heavy (677 MB) so it took several hours on my 256 Mbit connection. If you have a good connection at work for example, you should download the ISO, write it to a CD and add the…
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Moving to Ubuntu – The Regex Coach
After reaching 21 posts and caching up with the Security Now! episodes, I thought that it’s time to start a new series. I am what I consider a pro Windows user and lately I started moving to Ubuntu. I toyed with Linux distros before, but this is the first I feel that I can learn.…