Nov 02 2007

Ubuntu 7.10 is a real contender

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While I was away on holiday, Ubuntu released the latest version of their desktop operating system: Ubuntu 7.10. I had last tried the 7.4 release on my new notebook without much luck as the hardware was a lot newer than the operating system. I wasn’t too hopeful of having much luck installing 7.10 either on […]

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Aug 29 2007

Windows Server 2008 64 bit Notebook

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Now that I have a 64 bit notebook, I get to do fun stuff like install the 64 bit version of Windows Server 2008 (beta 3). I wasn’t too sure how well the experiment would go, but so far it’s been pretty successful. Drivers weren’t such an issue as most of the Vista x64 drivers […]

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Aug 12 2007

Getting the family involved

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Here’s a photo I took of my brother in Amsterdam waking Elliot up. I set up the notebook and webcam with Skype so that Andrew could see her and she could hear him. It was so funny listening to him call out, “Elliot….. Elliot… Elliot…”, trying to wake her up for the 10pm feed! [tags]elliot,andrew,skype,webcam,notebook,baby[/tags]

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Aug 11 2007

The almost perfect HP notebook

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I placed an order for a new notebook last week as soon we will be needing two of them around the house. Obviously I will get the new one and the 3 ½ year old notebook will get passed down to Deb to use. A little side note here before I continue – although the […]

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