Sprint 3G Card with Xubuntu Linux

This was planned to be a good, long and techie how-to article. Unfortunately, I ran into a small wrinkle:  Seems that configuring my Sierra Wireless Compass 597 Sprint 3G card with Xubuntu 8.10 Linux took about 5 seconds.

Seriously. It “just worked.” You could’ve knocked me over with a feather!

I plugged it in and waited for

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USB Bootable Linux for the Eee Netbook

Within a day of receiving my Asus Eee 701 netbook I dumped the factory Linux and installed Windows XP Pro. For my intended use that was just a better choice. However, there have been several times when I wished that this little guy still had Linux installed.

With four gigs of storage, dual-booting isn’t a

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XP Install Keyboard Shenanigans

Here’s an odd little tidbit from earlier this evening.

My neighbor stopped by with a computer problem. He had the restore CD for his Dell, but couldn’t seem to get the Dell to want to actually boot from that CD. No matter what he tried or changed in the BIOS, shortly after selecting the CD

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Quick Look at MojoPac 2.0

MojoPac 2.0 was released last week. Since it had been quite some time since I last played with the previous version I grabbed the 2.0 version (free) this weekend for a quick spin.

First impression? Probably the same as the first time I played with it: This is so cool! Your complete environment on a

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USB Video Adapters — Any Good?

My laptop sports a 17″ wide 1920 x 1200 pixel display. At the office I connect a 17″ 1280 x 1024 LCD to the side. I’d really like to add one more display to the other side, but there is only the one external (analog) display port.

I’ve seen USB video adapters for sale for some

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