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2007 April

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Screens & Things & Buttons & Woes

I’m not certain but I think I’ve been wrestling with SAM Linux for about two weeks now.   I can’t fault their support team, they kept plugging away until my video problem was solved but as soon as we solved the video problem other problems manifested.   I won’t go into it here but if […]

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SAM it am, but Not a Man

SAM is the Xfce version of PCLinuxOS.   I’ve installed SAM in two 600 MHz, P3, Dell, GX115’s, each having 256 MB of RAM, over the last couple of days and been very impressed with it’s performance.   When you drop in a CD or plug in a USB drive the appropriate icon appears […]

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Preventing Potential USB Drive Problems

Our computers aren’t networked.   I did try to network them "once upon a time" but the resulting catastrophe isn’t something I care to discuss (nope, not going there).   Suffice to say that, once in a while we’ve needed to transfer data from one computer to another and this was complicated by the fact […]

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Assorted Babble From a Faux Linux Geek

When my wife’s 800 MHz P3 Debian machine developed onboard video problems I couldn’t fix I bought a new motherboard for an 800 MHz Duron CPU I already had and just swapped out the board.   I assumed that switching from an Intel P3 to an AMD Duron would force me to reinstall Debian so […]