According to the announcement, it seems this maintenance release is mostly about trying to combat comment spam. Good idea! Of course, I haven’t even managed to find the time to upgrade the Child Abuse site to 2.65, let alone 2.66. I’m now two releases behind, gah! I’ve got some work to do!
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Looks like I wasn’t the only one trying out Knoppix yesterday. Library Planet had this to say: This goes way beyond DemoLinux. I stuck the CD in, re-booted, and had to hit enter one time to get it started. It identified all the hardware with no user intervention and booted right up. Thanks to a…
Way back when, Linspire offered their OS for free for a limited time. I signed up for that, mostly in order to satisfy my curiousity. Eventually I got the ISO downloaded and tried to use it to build a virtual machine using VMWare Workstation. Unfortunately the install crashed. Since the install was kind of a…
I can tell you from experience that even in my office it took years to get people to understand why you need to immediately terminate network access when some leaves the organization. Even now, when I’ve finally gotten people used to the idea that they need to let me know when someone is leaving, there…
I spent part of Saturday morning taking some of our old equipment to the local county solid waste authority’s computer recycling drive. They do a couple of these a year, and it’s a good way to get rid of monitors, printers and other hardware that simply doesn’t work any more or doesn’t serve a purpose…
Is it me or is the blog-world getting a little bit nastier every minute? Chris is pissed at Palm, Geek is aggravated with Spam Assasin, (albeit he seems quite a bit less aggravated than Chris *L*), and to top it all off, Doc is pissed about something Andrew Orlowski wrote in which he made stupid,…
I meant to blog this yesterday but got distracted. I just thought of it today. One of our tenants here in our office building asked me to help him with his new keyboard. Seems he was out of town visiting his son and they went by the Gateway store looking for deals before they all…