My evening? Installing Xubuntu Linux on (yet another) older ThinkPad while looking over the Microsoft “ramp up” stuff on ASP to ASP.Net. I like to keep in touch with both worlds…
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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 A client recently tossed a laptop at me and asked that I try to fix it. The root issue? Her company’s contract IT guy had setup some security “stuff” on it but forgot to tell her what her password might be – and then he disappeared! So, now she had a nice paperweight. Being ever pragmatic, I was toying around with Knoppix Linux earlier this week and was very impressed at how well it ran on some older machines. But alas, the current version doesn’t seem to have any notion of “persistence” so rebooting became a bit tedious – you start completely over each time. Now, to be fair, the target The other day, I “tweeted“ you know how mac users have Parallels in “coherence” mode to run XP seamlessly in a VM? I want that for my linux machine. Suggestions? Well, as is often the case, I asked before actually looking. Five minutes later I realized that VirtualBox has what I’m after in “Seamless Mode”. It |
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July 13th, 2009 | 
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