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The Linux Chronicles – Day 4 and 5
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Frustration Central These have been two extremely frustrating days. I’ve focused mostly on one thing – getting web editing software up and running so that I can edit my website. Kind of a core functionality. I’m dismayed and confused by the sorry state of web site management under Ubuntu. Notice I said web site management […]
Posted by neonjohn on January 20th, 2009 under Computing | 2 Comments »
The Linux Chronicles – Day 3b – the Palm Saga
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I rely heavily on my Handspring Visor because my memory is about as good as Bill Clinton’s morals – nonexistent. Therefore getting my Palm desktop back up and running was a major priority. As with the rest of the system, I give priority to native Linux applications before I start looking at WINEing winders apps. […]
Posted by neonjohn on January 18th, 2009 under Computing | 1 Comment »
The Linux Chronicles – Day 3a
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Whew, what a day. This will be a two part post because I have so much ground to cover. What an eventful day. I had my first “guru moments” (roadblocks that require guru knowledge) and I spent a LOT of time, almost 8 hours, getting my Palm Pilot (Actually Handspring Visor – still superior) to […]
Posted by neonjohn on January 18th, 2009 under Computing | 1 Comment »
The Linux Chronicles – Day 2
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Today was spent mostly on getting Agent to run under Wine. This is an Agent problem and not a Linux one. Agent installs itself in different places and in different ways, depending on whether you have done a virgin install or have upgraded. I’ve been with Agent for years so the install architecture on my […]
Posted by neonjohn on January 17th, 2009 under Computing | 2 Comments »