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  • Toshiba

    I certainly am glad that I added the notes previously about setting up linux on the laptop. The drive developed a couple bad blocks exactly where the /bin directory was stored which hosed the entire directory. The machine was not too happy abou that. I ended up reinstalling the entire system. I had save some…

  • ssh tunnelling

    I always thought that doing X11 tunnelling with ssh would be a hard thing to setup and understand but it turns out to be quite easy. First of all on the machine being connected to (remotehost) change the sshd_config file to include: X11Forwarding yes then kill -HUP the sshd client. Next when connecting from linux…

  • Seattle Symphony

    Lord of the Rings concert

  • .Net tips

    Paging tip Default Button ASP.Net not working after install

  • D&D Character Sheet

    Character sheets for D&D can be found here. Matthew is interested in this, certainly something I would encourage since I wiled many an hour playing D&D with friends in high school and college.

  • A couple thoughts

    Movable Type is losing a user. How common is your name?

  • Get rid of ghost devices in windows

    Windows had the bad habit of remembering what used to be installed on a PC. This can sometimes cause confusion because you get multiple choices for a single device, i.e. I have a scanner that every time it gets plugged into a different USB port it creates a new device for it so that when…

  • Microsoft’s Future?

    PBS | I, Cringely April 8, 2004 Why we will have to live with Microsoft for a while longer.

  • Job change

    My last few days at GA and then on to DOT.

  • Tell it to the judge

    My day in court

  • Wireless

    dlink wireless

  • What a hoot!

    Check this out: pinguin The best I have done is 1551.8 so far.

  • Life goes on

    Happiness with linux Happenings.

  • Friday the 13th

    Snow Pictures Must be the day Sickness

  • G-D Spam

    Bloody spammers! Not only do they flood our email boxes with thier junk but I was just checking comments to these web entries and found more than 20 ads for thier enlargement junk and such. This garbage is pissing me off. I agree more every day with Jerry Pournelle. Until something very painful and public…

  • Quick note

    Been meaning to get back here for a couple weeks. We got more snow about two weeks ago, about 8-10 inches and I took some pictures that need to be posted. It was of course all gone in 4-5 days but it was fun while it lasted. Kids loved it of course. Grant even got…

  • SNOW

    SNOW

  • Busy Weekend

    Baking and busting bums Sunday evening concert

  • Good quote

    Good Quote I saw today

  • What a week

    Glad this week is over. It was nice to have a day off but it just seemed like anything that could be a problem was. In retrospect, it was not quite as bad I am making it sound but I am glad things are over.

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