Archive for October, 2008
Dell Laptops & Ubuntu
I’d heard that Dell were offering Ubuntu Linux on some of their laptops and I hadn’t really looked into it. But I came across this page the other day and it’s pretty neat to get Ubuntu (or any Linux) preloaded on a laptop from a major vendor:
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=d
It’s good to support coming from a major vendor, [...]
Support Pine Street Inn
Support Boston’s Pine Street Inn this year and buy holidays cards based on a photograph I took:
http://www.pinestreetinn.org/store/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=61
The photograph also came 24th in the Boston Globe’s 2008 Winter Wonderland contest:
http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/02/22/winter-wonderland-24/
Penny over at BostonZest did a write up on this and asked me to comment on the picture:
http://www.bostonzest.com/2008/10/holiday-cards-to-support-pine-street-inn.html
KDE4 and Debian
I figured it’s time for me to try and install kde4 again! Previously I had to remove KDE4 due to package conflicts. There are installation instructions at:
http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html
So following the instructions there on what changes to make to your sources.list, and then run:
aptitude update
I’ve had some dependency issues, and installing the kde4 package (a meta-package that [...]
Debian’s e17 Packages
I thought I’d start looking at using Debian’s experimental E17 packages. I commented out all other E17 repo’s from my source.list and installed the debian e17 package. It installs a minimal amount of related packages, and there doesn’t seem to be lot of e17 packages available in the experimental repo
sudo aptitude install e17
Reading package lists… [...]
But I don’t want a PDF?
WTF is Citibank thinking with their web interface:
When I’m looking at my old statements I don’t want to have to wait for a PDF to download, then for Adobe Acrobat to open just so I can briefly look at an old statement.
Come on there Citibank, give me a default option to view this information in [...]












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