Friday November 2, 2007
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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This, the next exciting story in my Adventures With the Thinkpad T61 At Work (TM) =;)…. So I got a really sweet-looking IOGEAR 4-port USB KVM Switch at work. But when I plugged it into the T61, although the nVidia … Continue reading
Thursday November 1, 2007
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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This is pretty darned cool. I bought a $300 desktop from Walmart a few years ago and it’s still running OpenSUSE and serving as a pretty capable desktop machine for the family. Definitely worthwhile to put our FOSS dollars where … Continue reading
Thursday November 1, 2007
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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Thought this was pretty humorous. Went looking for unread KDE mail today and found these 2 e-mails back to back. Does it stink? Is it great? I’m going with the “is great” e-mail, personally… =;)
Sunday October 28, 2007
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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So, along with my glowing accolades of a few days ago, I’ll offer a little painful reality. The T61, as I said, is a heck of a nice little machine. Fast, smooth, quiet, and the works. However, there are a … Continue reading
Saturday October 27, 2007
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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Okay, first off, the ScribeFire Firefox extension is pretty cool. It would be a good thing for some Open Usability folks to help out, but the extension itself seems pretty functional. One large thing, though, is that there is no … Continue reading
Thursday October 25, 2007
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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Technology had several glorious victories at my desk today. First, I was fortunate enough to get a very nice dual-head GeForce Nvidia card installed on my 4-way AMD 64-bit cpu server at work. It goes very nicely with the two … Continue reading
Friday October 19, 2007
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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Today was my last day with my (before today) current employer. It has been a really, really, really bizarre and surreal day. 2 weeks for that matter. I caught myself several times shocked that I wasn’t more overwhelmed by the … Continue reading
Thursday October 18, 2007
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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My darling daughter was quick to fill me in on a bit of news garnered by some educational television programming the other day: I’m apparently relocating my little brood to The Red Triangle. Oh good. And here I was, just … Continue reading
Sunday October 7, 2007
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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So, here I sit in SFO, fighting the urge to pay $6 for an hour of WIFI. Note to self: figure out how to use Treo 650 in Linux with Sprint as a PPP connection! Oh yeah, also buy a … Continue reading
Wednesday September 19, 2007
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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KDE Computer Case Badges Originally uploaded by vanRijn Ordered some awesome computer case badges from an overseas .nl guy and just got them in the mail yesterday. I must say, I’m very impressed–with the quality of the product, the price, … Continue reading