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Monthly Archives: March 2006

Internet connection updated

14-Mar-06

Our internet connection was updated today. We upgraded from Comcastic to Utopida fiber-optic. Now you should be able to find your fix on our servers many times faster.
I am interested how my speed test link (above) compares with other tests. Fairly similar or is mine a little off? Let me know.
If this site has [...]

Broadcom Firmware

13-Mar-06

As some of you may know I’ve been helping test the next Ubuntu release, Dapper v6.04. My only issue so far has been with support for wireless on my notebook.
Previously I’ve had to use ndiswrapper, which ‘wraps’ the windows driver & uses that to load the card. In this next version they’ve [...]

Novell’s Xgl.. Great Linux eye-candy

05-Mar-06

I’ve installed Xgl on my desktop (Ubuntu Development Branch – Dapper 6.04) and it is sweet! Check out some screenshots here.
The tutorial I used to install is here.
This is a list of known-supported video cards (nvidia popular as expected)

Stop AOLs Email Tax

03-Mar-06

(The below letter is taken from www.dearaol.com. I thought I would share this with others–maybe enough voices will help.)
From: all@dearaol.com
To: postmaster@aol.com
Date: Tue Feb 28 13:00:00 EST 2006
Subject: An Open Letter To America Online
We wish to express our serious concern with AOL’s adoption of Goodmail’s CertifiedEmail, which is a threat to the free and open [...]