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News From The Sofa…..

November 16, 2008 – 15:31

I have finally got Linux installed on the old laptop, and am now able to blog from anywhere in the house - at the moment, I am comfortably ensconced on the sofa.
Having all but given up on the idea, after having so many failures, I discovered Puppy Linux. This runs on [...]

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More ‘puter Woes…

January 27, 2008 – 14:05

I got the PC started up this morning - then, when I went looking for a file on the 2nd hard drive, which I keep for backup - couldn’t find it. The drive, that is. It wasn’t showing up in the BIOS setup either, even after I’d checked all the cabling. But [...]

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Hot From….

January 21, 2008 – 11:17

….the laptop. Yes, I’m blogging from my laptop!
Not actually from choice, though. My monitor finally died last week; I hooked the desktop PC into B’s gigantic 21″ monster (since he didn’t have any immediate work to do), and everything worked fine for a day…
The, I started getting reboots, frazzled screens and an [...]

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