Author: wmeddie
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Ubuntu 7.04 Installation Notes
I added a new page to my website with some of my notes on installing Ubuntu 7.04 “Feisty Fawn” on my iBook G4. Even though PowerPC computers are no longer supported by Canonical I’m impressed with how little I had to do this time to get it working. Kudos to the Debian and Ubuntu communities.…
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久しぶり
Well, it’s been a really long time since I’ve written an entry but I’ll try to get everyone up to speed about what I’ve been up to in the last few months. The biggest news is that I’ve been accepted to do an internship at Matsushita (The parent company of Panasonic) for 6 months. It…
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Hard dance music
I’ve discovered a internet radio station that plays my favorite kind of dance music, hard dance. I would LOVE to go to a night club that plays this kind of music. It’s so full of energy, you can’t help but dance. http://hard.fm/
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The Power of Nightmares
I’ve learned much more with this 3 hour BBC documentary than 6 years of CNN. Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3
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Stick it to the phishers
I say that whenever you get a fake e-mail from a phishing site, go to it and enter totally bogus and insulting information. Make sure to take a few cracks at the guy’s mom while your at it. Although if you are using Windows it’s probably not a good idea.
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Chris-tans
For some reason, I feel bothered when I see christians around my age. I wonder why that is.
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Ubuntu 06.10 Edgy Eft
I’ve upgraded Chiaki to Ubuntu 06.10. I did a clean install this time because my 06.6 installation was pretty old, and had a good number of custom packages installed. Luckily for me I found out that a lot of people have been having problems doing dist-upgrades. I think 90% of those problems are because of…
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Google Office
The main feature that google office has that sets it apart from all the other office suits is built in revision control. I wish OpenOffice.org or Abiword could do that.