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July 2006



Bad memory? Ubuntu (memtest86) to the rescue...

2006.07.28 Fri 7:59 A GMT-07
My gentoo desktop machine has been acting flakey recently. Apps stop responding, network inconsistent. Sounds like a hardware problem. So I figured I would check my memory. Memtest86 to the rescue. Thanks to Ubuntu I had a live cd with memtest86
Category: linux open source
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Missing one image....

2006.07.19 Wed 10:08 P GMT-07
I saw this a few days ago linked to a blog (apparently here is an older version), if I can find where the original came from I'd give them credit.... (Google, how do I seach on an image, not for an image????) Anyway it was being passed around in ema
Category: linux open source
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SLLUG Meeting: Setup/Configuration of Django/Lighttp

2006.07.19 Wed 9:20 P GMT-07
This evening I attended a SLLUG meeting about deploying django with lighhtpd. I've never messed with lightty before, only heard off hand complaints that it doesn't like python too much. The perl-esque configuration setup seemed to provide for virtu
Category: python linux open source
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More computers, less keyboards. A plug for synergy2

2006.07.07 Fri 8:30 A GMT-07
I've been working mainly with two laptops recently. I normally use ergonomic keyboards with my desktops and was noticing that my wrists were sort of twitching. The solution? Buy a new keyboard. (So I went out and bought an ergonomic keyboard that
Category: linux open source
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