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Long winded update

Friday, January 30th, 2009

The post installation update of Fedora 10 - Gnome took forever! One bad thing about the update is that the shut down settings have changed. Before the update, when I chose "shutdown" from the System menu, "hibernate" and "suspend" were options. Now, they aren't there! I am thankful that I didn't have ...

Trying Fedora 10 on the Aspire One

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

I was using the Ubuntu Netbook Remix for a while. I can say that it suited all my needs and was very efficient about using space. I didn't have to customize any of the appearance settings at all; it just worked. I think the only downside of my using UNR ...

Intrepid Ibex Installed!

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Yahoo! It definitely looks nicer than the stock Linpus operating system, but it also comes at a price ... gone is my 15 second boot up time. It sure would be nice to have both a super fast boot up and this nicer OS. I guess I can start reading ...

I give up - apples and oranges

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

I am done for now trying to install OS X on my Acer Aspire One. Maybe I'm not cut out to be a hacker. Well, I didn't think you had to be a hacker to install OS X on the AAO, but in my case, things just aren't working out. ...

Persistance paying off?

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Now, I've moved on to being persistent. I've also decided that "obsessed" probably wasn't the best word for me earlier. I think I like "consumed" better. I'm not letting myself get consumed by things anymore. I am ok with being persistent as long as I keep boundaries to how much ...

Obsessed with installing os x

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

So, I'm not just stubborn, now I'm also obsessed! After learning that the Acer Aspire One is just as fast as the Apple Powerbook G4 1.5Ghz that I own, there seems like much less of a reason to keep the Powerbook. That is, of course, assuming that I can get OS ...

Magento is not too intuitive

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

I don't consider myself a novice when it comes to e-commerce systems, but Magento sure has given me some headaches. I will admit that I started off without reading a user guide, and that was probably not the smartest thing. I've read a few knowledgebase articles and a few forum ...

Leopard PHP with magento woes

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

Yeah, another woe post. haha. I tried to install Magento Commerce onto my Leopard system (Apple OS 10.5.x) just now, and it complained about not having "pdo_mysql", "gd", and "mcrypt". Oh, how I hate having to deal with compiling extensions and plugins! Now, I know why I don't use a VPS ...

TangoCMS / PHP-XML installation woes

Monday, November 17th, 2008

I thought I'd give TangoCMS a try this weekend. I have used CodeIgniter and Kohana, and so I figured the TangoCMS which is built on a MVC framework was worth trying. I don't know if there will ever be as many Zula developers as there are Kohana developers, so that ...

Barcamp San Diego - learning about improving memory

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

breath deeply - hand on chest and stomach, only the stomach should rise eating - avoid snacks sleeping - if you can't get regular nights sleep, try power napping before sleeping, review information during the day before going to sleep - done by Da Vinci ... sounds like what I learned in psychology ...