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On Upgrading the CPU, Motherboard, and RAM in SuperMario
SuperMario is my main Linux computer and its motherboard was dying. The first signs were the DVD burner no longer being read (knew it wasn’t just that one because I swapped out DVD burners) followed by the front panel USB not working. Then, last week, it stopped booting reliably. It was time to finally replace…
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Teenagers, Sex, School Sex Ed, and The Church
When I became sexually active (which I’ll loosely define as when I started trying to kiss and touch girls), here’s what I’d been told: School: there are tons of diseases you can get so don’t have sex Parents: If you have sex, make sure you use a condom to protect from aforementioned diseases as well…
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Sleep
Sleep is one of the most stress-inducing topics for parents. Well, for first time parents. I imagine that, baring some medical conditions, once you’ve figured out how to get one kid to sleep through the night, you can reapply the template over and over. I think one of the reasons sleep tends to be so…
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Review: Chakra Linux
I originally got interested in checking out the Chakra project because it was based on Arch Linux. As I mentioned before, the super customizability doesn’t appeal to me. I don’t have time for that – perhaps if Arch had existed when I was in high school or college I might have enjoyed it. What I…
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Review: Aptosid (Install and First Impressions)
I’ve installed Debian here and there on different computers in the last seven or so years that I’ve been using Linux. I almost ended up being a Debian person, but the Fedora book at the bookstore was more comprehensive, so I was set along the Red Hat path. On the one hand, I’ve often envied…
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Preupgrade from Fedora 15 (Lovelock) to Fedora 16 (Verne)
As usual, every time I upgrade Fedora I write a blog post to preserve this knowledge for others who might run across the same problem or in case it happens to me again next year. This time around the situation was a little less smooth than previous upgrades. After the preupgrade was done, when I…
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KDE 2010-2015 (KDE 4.x)
Desktop – Super Mario: Fedora – KDE 4: 2015 Programming Activity: Video Editing Activity: Video Games Activity: Photography Activity: 11 Dec: Multimedia Activity: School Activity: Main Activity: 2014 Programming Activity: 11 Dec: Video Editing Activity: 11 Dec: Video Games Activity: 11 Dec: Photography Activity: 11 Dec: Multimedia Activity: 11 Dec: School Activity: 11 Dec: Main…
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KDE 4.6.1
A few weeks ago, I upgraded to KDE 4.6.1 in Fedora 14 from KDE 4.5. The first login after reboot dumped me into Gnome. What the heck was going on? Apparently, in GDM, the entry had changed from KDE4 to KDE Plasma Desktop. Once I logged in that way, I was able to see the…
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Top 200 Photos: #146
To Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn for today’s Top 200 Photos. photo #146 is: One of the main bonding activities between my father-in-law and myself (and other members of Danielle’s family) was going fishing. Danielle’s father has almost always owned a boat and used fishing as his method of relaxation. For quite a number of years,…
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KDE Browsers Part 1: The Arguments
I’ve been using web browsers since Internet Explorer 1 and Netscape Navigator 3. I’ve blogged about my browser history quite a bit. I’ve ended up using Chrome on all my platforms. It works on Linux and Windows and I can have my bookmarks synced up across all those platforms. Now, I’m not a huge user…
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KDE Look Part 6: 4 Months In
I started using KDE in November of last year so I figured that I’d give an update on how things are working for me four months in. First off, KDE 4.6.x has not yet hit the official Fedora repositories. Since I like to yum upgrade or preupgrade from release to release, I try to stay…
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KDE 4 Look Part 3: A Week of KDE 4.5
So I’ve used KDE for about a work week. During that time I’ve pretty much gone to using the KDE versions of all my programs except Konqueror. I’m not sure if the Fedora 14 version of Konqueror is the one with Webkit, but last time I used Konqueror with KHTML it was mucking up a…
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Third Party Lenses Can Be Great, or a review of the Sigma 120-400mm and Sigma 10- 20mm
In the beginning was the kit lens. And it was OK. With it I learned how to use my DSLR. I had never even had a film SLR before, so there was a lot to learn. Eventually I wanted my lenses to reach further so I invested in the Tamron 55-200mm. I was ecstatic at…
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The Global Warming Debate is Broken
Because of the upcoming talks at Copenhagen, everyone’s been talking about global warming recently. The news even featured a member of a Commonwealth government claiming that global warming is not true. In my own country, Republicans like to say that global warming isn’t true. The opposition parties in both countries disagree. Look, this debate is…
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My First 10 Photos on Flickr
I wanted to see how I’ve changed as a photographer so I went to my first ten photos uploaded to flickr. The two biggest changes are that I am now really into portrait photography (although mostly natural portraits) and not quite as much into photoshop. My first two pages are mostly photoshop-manipulated photos. The next…