Archive for June, 2006

eBay, friend or foe?

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

Okay so I have a problem. It is not as bad as it could be….after all it is not as if I am a Crack baby kleptomaniac with a clubbed foot or anything like that. However, I am addicted to shopping, especially shoe shopping. While I have always been able to control this rather primitive […]

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Ubuntu &Sources.List File Update

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

Okay, I am moving slower these days, as I am only a novice and it takes me a while to figure out what to do ( or what to ask my resident Linux geek Jon) prior to entering it in my blog. If there is one thing I am realizing so far, it is that […]

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Partitioning and Ubuntu!

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

Note: this entry contains an audio interview…
When I last left off, I had done all the research and had readied my computer for Linux. After looking at several Linux distros, I chose to install Ubuntu…no reason…just like saying that word (oooobuntwo) Makes you want to smile! I didn’t have a disk so I had […]

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Burning My Restore CDs !

Friday, June 16th, 2006

Well, so much for this being an easy job. Once I finally got my CDs, I sat down to burn my recovery disks, which took a very very long time. Here is how it went:
Hint, make sure you plug in the power prior to starting this, if you use your juice up in the middle […]

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How to restore my Acer Aspire 3000 Laptop

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

First issue: After doing the research that I spoke about in my last Linux Diary entry, I found a little snag; my laptop did not come with a Windows XP CD.  It did, however, come with a utility to make factory restore CDs. When run, these CDs will restore my laptop to the condition it […]

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Getting Ready for Linux

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

We have looked at the different possibilities for using Linux – dual boot/clean install – and I have decided to do a clean install. In other words, I will be dumping Windows, partitioning the hard drive and bringing on the new operating system. In case I might want to dual boot (win/lin) later, I will […]

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Linux & Windows on a Mac?

Monday, June 12th, 2006

I have a little problem. I am easily swayed by aesthetics. In fact I am a marketers dream. If it is in a shiny or sexy package, I will become infatuated with whatever product it holds. Currently I am the proud owner of beautiful yet useless items like: 1” glow-in-the-dark mouse (wires became exposed within […]

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Why Linux?

Monday, June 12th, 2006

Note: this entry contains an audio interview…
So you want to install Linux. Well what is it? What makes it so special? What are the advantages to changing my current operating system – which happens to be Microsoft Windows – to a system that I know so very little about? These are questions that I asked […]

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The Linux Virgin Diary: The Journey

Sunday, June 11th, 2006

Those of you who know me, probably know me through the JaK Attack Podcast. I am Kelly Penguin Girl, co-host of a show that is all about laughter, tech news, rants, and good times. It is also about Linux, something that I know very very little about. Something that my co-host Jon Watson knows way […]

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Design Inspiration!

Friday, June 9th, 2006

Sometimes all you need is the right inspiration to get a project started. With interior design, I find one of the hardest obstacles is seeing your space through another person’s eyes. Looking outside of the box, so-to-speak. If you can imagine an area without the walls that split up your area it would be so […]

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