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Cinnarch 64 bit, Installation Review

on Thu, 01/17/2013 - 12:16

 

Howdy folks, this is FiftyOneFifty, and today I wanted to talk about my experiences installing the 64 bit version of Cinnarch net edition on a dual core notebook. Cinnarch of course is a relatively new Arch based distro running the Cinnamon fork of Gnome. I had previously installed Arch proper on this notebook, but when I rebooted to the hard drive, I lost the Ethernet connection. This is not uncommon, but there the notebook sat while until I had time to work the problem. I wanted to start using the notebook, and I'd heard good things about Cinnarch, so it seemed like a simple solution.

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Of Fuduntu, RescaTux, and the Joys of Configuring a New System

on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 23:21

I've found that it's not just ATI and nVidia drivers that get deprecated.  I recently bought a used dual core Dell with an integrated Q965/Q963 graphics accelerator, and I've found I'm not the only one not getting the full resolution in Linux.

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About ready to call Shenanigans on this whole Raspberry-Pi thing

on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 19:00

OK, about a week after Raspberry-Pi 's were first offered for sale, I get an e-mail from Newark.com saying they could fill my pre-order.  Since this was neither of the RPi's announced distribution partners, I had to look them up.  Newark.com is listed as a partner here on the Element 14 website http://us.element14.com/jsp/bespoke/bespoke1.jsp?bespokepage=newark/en_US/inside/profile.jsp and the Raspberry Pi website confirms Element 14 is part of Premier Farnell, one of the orginal announced trading partners.  Then I hear the first run has to be remanufactured because the wrong RJ-45 sockets

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Installing Skype on 64-bit Fedora

on Sun, 01/22/2012 - 22:10

Last week I decided to install Skype as an alternative way to contact people with land lines. I haven't played with Skype since I had it on my Windows workstation, so I downloaded and installed the .rpm for Fedora 13+. All Skype has is a 32-bit package for Fedora, and sure enough, when I tried to launch Skype, the icon bounced around Compize fashion, then the application item on the taskbar closed without doing anything. I looked for information in troubleshooting Skype from the logs, and an Arch wiki article told me I might have to create ~/.Skype/Logs , which I did.

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How to Clone Your Windows WiFi Profiles to a New Laptop

on Sun, 01/22/2012 - 22:06

The other day I was copying a customer's files and settings from a old laptop to a new one. Much of this tedious task was handled automatically by Fab's Autobackup ( http://fpnet.fr/ , and 25% until Valentines Day BTW ), but I was disappointed that his dozen WiFi access point profiles and passwords were not one among the settings that Fab's copied for me. For a family laptop, you usually just have to re-enter the password for just the home router, and maybe once again for your work wireless.

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