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That was the goal at least. This is really an article about when to give up on old hardware (atticware). It’s amazing how injecting a bit of money into a project can really increase the stability and usability of the computers involved. But let’s start at the beginning.
I really hate backing up systems; especially after [...]

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The last update on my home network had seen new and improved routing; I am still feeling the benefits of that change and I highly recommend it to anyone who is looking to bring their LAN up to the next level. I have made some tweaks to the network since then which represent a change [...]

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An article over at Linux.com on Debian 4 (Etch) got me interested to try it out. Since then, I’ve installed it a hand-full of times and have converted a few friends, too. I have read many articles by impressed bloggers about Debian Etch’s impressive features, and I have been impressed by my first hand impressions. [...]

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So since the last update on my home network I have been working on a lot projects and computers. The last update detailed 4 computers: 3 functional and 1 not so much. Since the addition of the 6th active computer on my network I’ve made some changes to the network architecture which I will outline [...]

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I upgraded my intel machine to Kubuntu Edgy Eft today. The process was long but smooth. i had been messing with my sources.list file for a while now and kind of wanted to start fresh, so i used the one from Ubuntu Guide. Everything worked well and it booted like a champ as if nothing [...]

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FLAC stopped working again for me in Amarok. I had to use the same patch as before (a downgrade) because I could not find a ubuntu2-7.3 patch. Somebody let me know if ivoman or others write it. the downgrade still works, so I recommend just reinstalling the patch from the previous post.
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On my set up, Kubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft works. All it took was a: sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop (i chose to use gdm).
Still no luck with bluetooth. Codecs are still a bit of problem (big surprise, right?) since there are no win32codecs in the repos. As Edgy Eft becomes less and less beta, I have [...]

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Success is so sweet when followed by anxiety. Linux is up and running on the iMac making my lan completely linux. Here’s what I did:
First I tried an install of Suse 10.1 (open). I was a little disapointed to see it was 5 disks — I admire a distro that gets it done in [...]

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I own an original iMac G5 17″ that I have designated as my production/desktop machine. I’ve been running panther on it for the last two years…until today that is. Since I began using Linux seriously, I have become more and more frustrated by the limitations of OS X. I made attempts at using Fink (package [...]

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When i bought my PII I learned the joys of old hardware. Its particularly fun component was an ATI RageII card. Needless to say that machine lacks a desktop environment. I have also been playing with an old Thinkpad that was given to me after it had a run in with some cheery coke. It’s [...]

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