Could not stand a layout where you could only trundle through my (mostly verbose) posts in full text mode.
This one is better, although not ideal. Fun though.
Could not stand a layout where you could only trundle through my (mostly verbose) posts in full text mode.
This one is better, although not ideal. Fun though.
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Switch Cookie Cutter Software, no. Cookie Dough Software, yes.
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My fave 3 R’s: Re-factor, re-wiki, re-use
This is a great group for talking about Unix and related or unrelated technical subjects. Nortel’s crash is a technical topic, right? Continue reading
– changed the tagline
– changed “About” page
Neither of those show up in RSS feeds, someone must think they are static
Odd, that. 🙂
Let’s first talk about getting there. The OCLUG meetings since New Years have been in room B457 at Algonquin’s Woodroffe Campus. It is identified on the web site clearly, with a link to the map, which is a good start. However, Algonquin’s floor maps are not clear. Continue reading
Some events – have not gone over my complete list of groups yet. Continue reading
I have posted a list of Ottawa organizations that meet to discuss software-related topics. I have attended meetings of several of them in the past and can recommend them. However, several I have not visited, so I can’t say what they are like.
Accordingly, I have decided to attend as many as I can in the next few months, and post a review here.
To be fair to all the groups, and to people who may have different goals in visiting a technical group, I will evaluate all the groups with the following criteria. They are very subjective criteria, so of course, ‘your mileage may vary.’ Continue reading
Migrated. Originally posted: 2010-01-02
I have found a few places on the net with info on re-installing grub.
Here is what worked for me: Continue reading
Migrated. Originally posted: 2010-01-02
Once you have tried, and eliminated, all the techniques that won’t work, the remaining technique, however inconvenient, is the one you must use.
Migrated. Originally posted: 2009-07-05
Did you notice that vi is pretty much feature-free on newer Debian systems? it doesn’t even have syntax coloring.
The default vi package installed on Debian Lenny, and Ubuntu is vim-tiny, which is really restricted and very appropriate for really, really small environments. Continue reading