Category Archives: Computer Support

Movable Type 3.31 and Ubuntu 6.06

So there’s been a lot of extensive, yet subtle change over the last few weeks here at the mighty, mighty Farlops Industries: After a period of stasis for 7 months, I moved all of my site’s legacy content into Movable … Continue reading

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The Neverending Battle Against Bloatware

Spent all of last night and early morning making revisions to my test installation of MT3.2. Made good progress. Going to see Superman Returns later today, which sort of suggested this entry’s title. This entry is really a test to … Continue reading

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Useful stuff to know about XP and Linux

coLinux: and open source Linux emulator. Run Linux inside NT5+ without buying VMWare. There are other ways to emulate Linux inside NT5+ with other open source emulators. I really don’t know why I started exploring this, either I multiboot, use … Continue reading

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Old clunky hardware

You know the hardware is old and broken when you can’t even get it install Linux. Yes, I have kernal boot floppies around but these old laptops either don’t have a floppy, the BIOS won’t support boot from CD or … Continue reading

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Something I suspected for a long time

By way of the Web Standards Project I came across an essay that, among discussing other things, states that web browsers will eventually become, the only application platform that matters, and that Microsoft may be ignoring this to their peril. … Continue reading

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New Year's Cleaning

After spending a few hundred dollars on a used laptop (Of the same model as my old one with a cracked screen and which now stands to be cannibalized for parts.), a roomy drive and an 802.11 (b+g) transceiver, I … Continue reading

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Personal E-mail Security: The Definitive Guide

Many of my friends have been on Internet for years and years. They have the knowing of the Way of the Machine. And they know what to do when it comes to keeping their mail accounts free of spam, worms, … Continue reading

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Network Admin to the Stars

Just got home a few hours ago after spending some time at my nephew’s house trying to get his playstations to work through the firewall of his router. It was an interesting learning experience but, I didn’t really arrive at … Continue reading

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Hofstadter's Title

Anyway, I’ve been busy this last week with work, mostly adding a bunch of content to Blinksoft and doing some network administration for a doctor’s office, so I haven’t really had time to post here. Work on the Greymatter update … Continue reading

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My own mod of Greymatter

Well, it’s a work in progress. After removing some bugs that people have found, plus the ones I already knew were there, I think it’s ready for prime time. Feel free to try it out (If you want to look … Continue reading

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