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Ubuntu on the new laptop

By Matthew Taylor | May 5, 2007

Okay, so Ubuntu rocks!
I’ve moonlighted with Linux in the past (Slackware, Suse, & Fedora), but I’ve always ended falling back to the old crotchety standby, Windows. I kept Slackware running on my extra PC for web development for a long time, but eventually I had to scrap it for parts. But now that [...]


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Thinkpad out, Dell in

By Matthew Taylor | May 5, 2007

I’m not going to go into the details, but the Thinkpad I bought didn’t work out. After two botched repair attempts on a failing wifi card, I demanded a refund. So now I have a Dell Inspiron 6400. It took over 6 weeks for Lenovo to get the Thinkpad produced and shipped [...]


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I’m finally getting a laptop

By Matthew Taylor | January 25, 2007

It’s been a long time coming. Hopefully it will be here in the next couple weeks. I’ve very excited because I have a wireless network at home, and this comes with a wireless card. So I can sit downstairs while my wife is watching television and my son is running around like [...]


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