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Weekend fun
Ha! I had some more Linux fun over the weekend. On Saturday I wiped my two machines and put Lubuntu on. Although Ubuntu was pretty smooth… it had a lot of “features” that I just didn’t want. So I played with Lubuntu for the rest of the day. It’s big feature is that it’s light… — read more
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Linux is indeed fun
So, I’ve been playing with Ubuntu proper for the last few days. It certainly has polish. But I realized this morning that it was just too full of annoying crapware. I found myself inundated with “features” that I didn’t want. With no easy way to remove or disable them. I’ve always believed that Linux is… — read more
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An excuse to try Ubuntu
In my process of installing several different Linux distros over the last week or two, I found out a few things. First, the idea of using LVM and having a separate partition for /home is great. I was able to wipe Linux Mint off my machines and put on Lubuntu with no problem at all.… — read more
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Giving Lubuntu a whirl
I’ve been contemplating what to do about potentially messing up my Linux Mint installations by changing repositories for the MATE desktop environment. I was not having any trouble, but the idea that I totally strayed from the official accepted practices by adding a foreign repository bothered me. I was also questioning if Linux Mint was… — read more
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LVM and partitions
One thing to consider when installing Linux is hard drive partitions. The default for most Linux distributions is to have one big partition for root and a small swap partition. That’s it. This is less than ideal. It’s particularly inconvenient for those that have a lot of user data and like to experiment with different… — read more
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New blog
About a week ago, I decided I needed to get more in touch with my geek roots. So I formatted the hard drives on my desktop machine and my laptop, and I installed Linux Mint 15 MATE edition. I’ve created this blog in order to chronicle my experiences with Linux. There are two primary reasons… — read more
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Problem solved
Our vehicle saga took another turn yesterday. Shawna and I bought two 2-door 2012 Honda Civics about a year ago. We traded in our cars which had about 90k miles on both of them, effectively extending the life of our automobiles about 5 more years. In the process we moved from two fairly expensive cars… — read more
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Call the Whaaaambulance
I tend to be a bit of a whiner. It just seems like sometimes it’s way easier to see the negatives vs the positives. Sort of like how the news tends to report way more negatives stories than it does positive ones. Or how typical conversations are often about what’s wrong with our government or… — read more
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New Diet Plan
Shawna and I started a new diet yesterday. This isn’t one of those “we’re going to eat healthier” diets. It’s a Medi-Fast diet. You eat six times a day. Five of those “meals” are provided by Medi-Fast. The sixth meal is a “lean and green” meal. It consists of 5-7oz of lean meat and a… — read more
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Ship of Fools
This was written right after President Obama’s initial election. It’s doubly true now that he’s been re-elected, with half the nation in utter disbelief that anyone in their right mind would give this man a second term. “The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him… — read more