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Dell Latitude C800 Display Problems with Ubuntu

My old and aged Dell Latitude C800 has just finished some needed maintenance.  For the most part, the laptop is being used by the proprietor of my local coffeehouse.  I received a frantic email from her last week complaining that Ubuntu's updates had failed and she was unable to login to her machine.
I picked up [...]

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Time Flies

Yet another hectic week at the office, and here it is Sunday evening.  Sometimes, work gets in the way of things it should not.
Some personal tech projects are afoot, so more news on them this week.

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Week-ending Tidbits

One of the things my friend Paul and I discussed when I was in St. Louis last weekend was how quickly time seems to fly now.  "The summer just started; It's the 4th of July; It's 8-8-08."  The worst part about this seemingly speedy passage of time is I seem to keep having more and [...]

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Peace and Quiet

I am sitting here enjoying a quiet Saturday morning, drinking some coffee and catching up on things in advance of a day of enjoying a cookout with some good friends followed up with some beers with some friends.  Nonetheless, here are some things percolating in my mind over the last few days. 

I am so [...]

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Catharsis

As another week ends and a new one begins, I find that my weekend was absorbed with work.  Again.  Some unexpected outages and a planned outage wound up taking up most of my time yesterday.  For some strange reason, the last two weeks have been full of too much work.  Today was delightfully uncomplicated by [...]

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