Finally! A Digital Photo Camera
My wife and I drove up to my hometown of Weiser, Idaho for my baby sister Kayla’s High School graduation. On the way north, we stopped at Best Buy and took a look at the HP Photosmart E317 digital...
View ArticleResponse: The Dvorak Keyboard Layout
This is in response to Christer Edwards recent post about starting to try out the Dvorak keyboard layout. I haven’t used Dvorak layout for a few years now. This is not because I don’t want to, but...
View ArticleCamera Batteries Didn’t Last
In my recent post, I said that I would try to get better pictures of the commemorative plaques at the U.S. Patent & Tradmark Office‘s training rooms. When I went to start making the attempt, the...
View ArticleNew Hard Drive: R.I.P.
It hasn’t been very long since I upgraded the storage on my home file server. One evening last week while I was in Los Angeles, my wife told me that there was a “funny” sound coming from the “server...
View ArticleMy MiniDisc is Back
Back in 1995, I started working for a mobile DJ company in Denver & Colorado Springs, Colorado. We used 3 MiniDisc decks with each set of equipment for all our music. MiniDisc is an awesome...
View ArticleLinux on an HP Compaq 6715b Notebook
Last week, some IBM ThinkPad T61p notebooks showed up at Guru Labs offices. There were 2 of them on Monday and another on Tuesday. I also know that there are 2 more coming and perhaps a couple of other...
View ArticleATI Driver Trouble Under Fedora 8
So, is anyone else experiencing troubles with the proprietary ATI driver on Fedora 8? How about on an updated F7 system? My HP Compaq 6715b notebook comes with ATI Radeon X1270 video 128MB RAM...
View ArticleEasy Bluetooth Mouse Setup in KDE
A few minutes ago, I installed the kdebluetooth package. I was already logged in, so I had to launch the kbluetooth applet myself. I then clicked K Menu -> System -> KInputWizard, pressed the...
View ArticleopenSUSE 11.2 Upgrade
I upgraded my HP Compaq 6715b from openSUSE 11.1 to openSUSE 11.2 on Tuesday. There have been a couple of minor bumps since, but all-in-all, I’m pretty happy with the upgrade. Here are some of the...
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