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Smoothing Off Some Rough Edges

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Nosbig

Lately, I have been spending some quality time again with my TC1000 from Compaq.  I purchased mine last year, along with two friends of mine.  We all have taken different approaches to making the tablets work well. I have been … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Services

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Nosbig

Yesterday afternoon, my girlfriend discovered a particularly large volume of voicemails on her phone, after having cleaned out her mail box just 36 hours prior.  She listened to several blank voicemails, as well as one from someone who wanted us … Continue reading →

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Starting a Podcast/Netcast

Posted on April 1, 2007 by Nosbig

I have been wanting to start a podcast for a very long time, inspired by what Leo Laporte does with TWiT and with what my parents did educating people. So, I spent some time thinking about a focus for the … Continue reading →

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Wireless Streaming Media Server

Posted on March 8, 2004 by Nosbig

Today, I am finishing up my Streaming Media Server. It will wirelessly share music streams and setting up in-house file sharing for my music.\n\nThe hardware included a Thinkpad 390E from IBM (333 MHz Pentium II, 192MB RAM, 6 GB hard … Continue reading →

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Windows 2000 == Unix? Does not compute!

Posted on November 13, 2003 by Nosbig

Sitting in my Windows 2000 class (a required course for my degree), the instructor talked at great length tonight about Active Directory, groups, roaming profiles, and permissions. While listening to him, I ponder, “What is exactly the point of running … Continue reading →

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Playing a GAIM…

Posted on September 1, 2003 by Nosbig

For quite a while, Gaim, my IM client, was crashing on me… I don’t know what it was, but my whole system kept locking up on me. So, I tried the latest version, 0.67, and it is amazing. It has … Continue reading →

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The Matrix is Reloaded

Posted on May 23, 2003 by Nosbig

I fire up the latest version of GAIM this morning to send a quick message to a friend of mine, Singe from World Class Mods, and was surprised to be greeted with this logo, rather than the default logo that … Continue reading →

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Debian 3.0

Posted on August 12, 2002 by Nosbig

I have neglected to post here, likely since no one ever reads this…. Anyway, I did post to the NCOLUG website that Debian 3.0 has arrived. This was several weeks ago. Since then I have ordered and received the CD’s, … Continue reading →

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Playing DVDs

Posted on June 20, 2002 by Nosbig

I have been enjoying playing DVDs lately under Linux. One problem, interlacing. My favorite player, Ogle, doesn’t support deinterlacing just yet. There are other players like Xine that offer that support, but I have been unable to get support working … Continue reading →

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The DopeFish Lives!!!

Posted on February 8, 2002 by Nosbig

After the upgrade, I started playing around with DOSEMU, a full-fledged DOS emulator. The FreeDOS kernel is a little lacking, so I threw my copy of the Windows 95 DOS on there, and it is working to a degree. Anything … Continue reading →

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