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Apple Thunderbolt Display Review

By On 2011/12/28 · Leave a Comment · In Personal, Techie

With the increase in travel as of late I am finding myself tied more and more to the laptop. Despite an extensive home lab with KVM switches and dual monitors, there I would sit with my 11″ MacBook Air. Simplicity was the main reason I found. Transfer files, syncing something to a new machine, etc. [...]

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Google ChromeOS Cr-48 Review

By On 2010/12/15 · 1 Comment · In Techie

It seems everyone is posting their review after a few days of working with the laptop. I decided to take a different perspective with the initial review. When I first started playing with ChromeOS betas a few months ago I came to the realization that this was not for me. Two things were apparent:

This machine [...]

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Mandriva Linux 2010 is a hot mess

By On 2009/11/05 · Leave a Comment · In Personal

Real quick review of the desktop in pro’s and con’s

Pro’s Installer is pretty and well laid out Theme extends across all 3 supported desktops (lxde, KDE, and GNOME) Administration utilities use native toolkits for each platform unlike YaST from SuSE Con’s Why wouldn’t you use network-manager rather than your cheesy control center tool I [...]

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VMware Server Beta 2 Review

By On 2007/11/15 · Leave a Comment · In Techie, Techie Stuff

The Good:

Bringing it up to level of workstation/fusion virtual machine compatibility? Vix if you are into the innards of virtualization.

The Bad:

Wow I mean where do you start? Let me walk you through my install process. I upgraded from the original vmware server to beta on an Ubuntu Gutsy box. The install process [...]

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OpenSuSE 10.3 < Ubuntu Gutsy

By On 2007/09/23 · Leave a Comment · In Techie, Techie Stuff

I am done dealing with OpenSuSE 10.3. Before anyone starts I realize that it is a beta release candidate “blah blah blah.” I expect simple things to work without a hassle such as touchpads and wifi. Now laptops have always been the bane of Linux, but as of recently Ubuntu ran better than XP on [...]

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