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… you’re better actually post something from time to time.
Yes I have been absent for awhile but definitely active. We did a lot of cool things this year in the district and I have some big plans for this coming year. With the release of Office 2010 we are at a crossroads on whether to [...]
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
For the three of you that regularly read my blog you know that I am a Linux leaning geek. Free is compelling but it is the community that keeps me coming back. I am also Microsoft certified and realistic that if I want to be employed for a long period of time I need to [...]
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
I was looking around for some wallpaper for Ubuntu (Human is pretty cool but I was looking for some spice). I found a wallpaper mocking Microsoft with a Penguin carved into the grass of the default XP wallpaper. While searching I came across Emerald Theme Manager. It gives you some nice effects like the ones [...]
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Saturday, December 20th, 2008
Yet again the prodigal blogger has returned. This time I have a fairly decent excuse. I changed jobs. I’m now running the technology for Addison Community Schools. So far things have been great and I will have plenty of opportunities to put open source software to use.
One of my first tasks is to evaluate the [...]
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
It isn’t often that I have a double wow moment but setting up Ubuntu 8.10 on VMWare 2.0 did just that. Let’s start with VMWare 2.0.
VMWare 2.0 is a dramatic change from 1.x. For starters the interface is web based but not just any web based it is run on Apache Tomcat. It’s pretty. Don’t [...]
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
As promised I took a look at 8.10 and I have to say that Ubuntu keeps knocking it out of the park. I was initially dismayed that my wireless didn’t work and to be honest I don’t know how or if I fixed it. When I initially did the upgrade I followed the guide provided [...]
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
I’m not a user of Subversion (one note: I do use subversion client to upgrade this WordPress blog. There is no easier way to upgrade WordPress!), I’ve never committed changes to any software, heck I’ve never programmed anything outside of changing scripts that others have written. I am, however, the administrator of our [...]
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
It has been some time since I blogged about Ubuntu mainly because I work in a Windows world. However, I installed the Hardy Heron release (8.0.4) on my laptop again and I am happy to report that the video and wireless issues I have run into in the past are easier to overcome.
The hardware [...]
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As some of you will recall I have been testing Hardy Heron since Alpha and love it. Ubuntu Linux has knocked another one out of the park. Hardy is now in Beta and available from here. Obviously it is not a production release but I have run into very few problems and [...]
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For those of you that regularly read this blog (all 5 of you) my apologies for not posting lately. Honestly, I post when I have something to post. My geek brain needed a break after my work on the Zimbra email server.
I did want to update the progress on the testing. So [...]
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