Category: Computers
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In Praise of SIDUX
I said I wouldn’t write about the old Dell Latitude L400 again, unless there was a “breakthrough”. Well, there hasn’t been one, so I’m not really writing about that machine (but of course, I really am) 😉 Really, this is more of a Linux posting than a specific laptop one… So, unless you’re […]
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SPAM Problem Solved!
OK, not really. That was only a slight exaggeration 😉 Seriously, the specific spam problem that I complained about in my “technology is random” posting is what I’ve now solved. As I mentioned in that post, I had a combination of procmail rules and SpamBayes filtering, etc. I completely turned off the old […]
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Debugging Firefox and WordPress 2.1 UI issues with Firebug – SUCCESS
I’m typing this to provoke the following error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to call method XMLHttpRequest.open So far, not provoked, which means that I think I figured out what was killing me ever since I upgraded to WordPress 2.1. Before I declare victory, let me try to insert a link, which is what […]
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Why does most technology feel “random” so often?
I’ve been involved professionally with technology since 1980. So, you’d think that I understand it (and how it works) reasonably well by now. On some levels, sure, but on others, I feel as helpless as the proverbial mother-in-law or grandparent in the “clueless users” examples people always give… Conceptually, I understand how “small […]
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I’m truly a glutton for punishment…
OK, so here I am again, updating my progress on the old Dell Latitude L400 saga… Before I begin, let me assure the millions of readers of this blog that I have no illusion that I will ever be able to use this laptop in anything other than as a “guest surfing” node […]
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I’m officially a fool…
This (meaning, the title of this post) is not news to anyone who knows me 🙂 For the purposes of this post, I interpret being a fool to “continuing to waste time trying to get the Dell Latitude L400 to be a stable machine for my purposes”. It should have been obvious to […]
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Ancient Laptop Frustration
OK, since I’ve decided to blog a little, I may as well start with something that is driving me nuts. After all, the point of this is to attain a little catharsis (at least, that’s my point). My current laptop (now 2 years old) is a Sager NP8890 Force (this model is no […]