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Following is a letter that I intend to send to Microsoft tomorrow:
July 29, 2006
“Genuine Microsoft Software” Team
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052-6399
To whom it may concern,
Microsoft’s recent imposition of Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) has prevented me from obtaining my rightful updates to Windows XP. I have a [...]
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I got linux running on the mac mini (sort of).
After a mere 30 hours of intensive hacking, the attempted use of many distros…Fedora, opensuse, yellowdog, kubuntu, kubuntu alt, ubuntu alt…I got Ubuntu up and running. I had to do an IBM tutorial on working with bash, I had to hack away at my xorg.conf file, [...]
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Finally!! After 6 years of fits and false starts, I have finally made the transition to Linux! And, I do believe it is for real–and for good–this time around. I now have had my main machine running linux for 2 weeks. My laptop is dual boot….I still have a windows based media center, and the Mac Mini has been nothing but a pain in [...]
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Ever since I was little and would watch boxing from my father’s lap, I have been taught to root for the under dog. When I was younger, I would occasionally walk outof a bar and into a fight…I never had to ask what the fight was over, I only cared who was winning. Then back [...]
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but…
I’ve been a big fan of digg for about a year. It has become my prime source for tech news. However with digg’s new release and expansion, it is becoming mostly self referential.
Self reference is usually a sign of rot…
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I usually give SUSE a try every major release. The last one I had tried was 9.2 which I actually bought with books and everything. My recent misadventures with Xandros 4 (which I also bought) led me to try other distros before giving up and resorting to Windows again. Tried FC5, but I don’t know [...]
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So MS has rolled out MS Genuine Advantage for XP. You evidently can’t access updates without it running. But what happens when it doesn’t work? Prepare to enter MS tech support hell.
I recently made that journey, here I will recount it in skelatal form.
I was restoring an old PC at work, a [...]
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I recently bought Xandros 4.0 Home Premium. What did I not get for eighty bucks?
NO MP3 Encoder!
NO DVD Decoder!
What did I get for eighty bucks?
A pain in the ass. I have a pretty basic but standard ATI video card. Is it supported? Fuck no! Go to ATI and get the [...]
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These are the last 5 songs I’ve listened to.
More on this when I am at a browser that is better supported than Safari. (for those who use wordpress with Safari, install Firefox. You will be surprised at the features that will be available.)
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OK, I’m back in Firefox…. (and I got my timezone corrected…)
http://last.fm
Last FM is a music info and sharing site. You can get a plugin for your favorite media player which automagically posts your listening pleasures. In Amorak it also provides real time music suggestions based on what you are listening to, an excellent [...]
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Rumblings From the Edge: subjective rants, raves, and ramblings by John Trapp. Not intended to be objective, anything posted here is my opinion and is subject to change without notice.
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