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Ubuntu, PPC, Fail

Tim — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:46:26 +0000

I have an old Powerbook G4 hanging around doing nothing, and I thought I’d try to get Ubuntu going on it. The install was fairly straight forward but unfortunately there were too many things that turned out to be a hassle. I worked out some things, but then decided the hassle wasn’t worth [...]

Tweets for 2009-02-17

Tim — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:31:48 +0000

Tomorrow I start Day 2 of the great 2009 Windows XP install. Argh. 23:41:45 Oh and don’t get me started on lack of drivers for the network card. Like, wtf? How, exactly should I d/l drivers without network drivers? 23:40:40 Re-installing XP on wife’s PC. What a pain. In the time I’ve spent [...]

ReadyNAS NV+, Seagate Firmware Update Take 1

Tim — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:50:27 +0000

If you have ever heard of Seagate (the hard drive manufacturer), then you surely know that last month they had a flurry of hard drive failures in their popular 7200.11 line of hard drives. After a couple of PR snafus, Seagate finally got their act together and issued firmware and update instructions for the [...]

Tweets for 2009-02-13

Tim — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:30:17 +0000

BTW, the cool epoch time “celebration” at http://coolepochcountdown.com/ confused the hell out of me when it happened. 23:32:31 Visit http://coolepochcountdown.com/ to relive the moment. 23:31:29 In case you live under a rock, or run Windows, today the 1234567890 second since Jan 1, 1970 was marked. w00t. 23:31:11 Passport RFID fail. $250 gets you passport sniffer. Nice [...]

Links for February 5th through February 10th

Tim — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:01:07 +0000

These are my links for February 5th through February 7th

Links for January 29th through January 30th

Tim — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:10:03 +0000

These are my links for January 29th through January 30th

Vista a Spectacular Failure?

Tim — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:41:52 +0000

I haven’t even run Vista. Even though I’m a developer and make my living off Windows application development, I am frankly just not an OS tire kicker. I didn’t buy a Mac until Tiger came out, I still run the stable (_sometimes_ the testing) release of Debian and I haven’t tried Ubuntu as [...]