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Windows 7 RC (Release Candidate) Download Available May 5th
Yup, the title pretty much says it all. Oh what? You want to know where you can download it from? Well unless you have a MSDN or TechNet Plus subscription you’re going to have to wait until May 5th to get your hands on the RC. Here’s the links!
If you’re an MSDN subscriber then click here!
If you’re a TechNet Plus subscriber then click here!
Everyone else can just wait until May 5th and then goto these websites.
MSDN Windows 7 Customer Preview site.
TechNet Windows 7 Customer Preview site.
General Windows 7 Customer Preview site.
Now, if this whole process seems just a little too complicated to make it worth the trouble then I HIGHLY suggest going to www.ubuntu.com and trying that out!
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Ubuntu 8.10 upgrade to 9.04 (Grub and ATI Issues)
Well I took the plunge this weekend and upgraded my ubuntu 8.10 laptop and ubuntu 8.04 desktop to ubuntu 9.04 and I ran into two big problems. First, my grub menu.lst wasn’t updated correctly and second my ATI video drivers weren’t working after the upgrade. I’ll paint a little picture of my situation just so that things all make sense. I’ve did not upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 on my desktop due to VPN PPTP issues that 8.10 was having and I really needed the VPN capability but that’s all that was stopping me at the time. I did not need the VPN functionality on my laptop so I went ahead and upgraded that machine.
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How to get a Sansa Clip working with Rhythmbox in Ubuntu
So I got me an 8gb Sansa Clip from Walmart the other day for $50. Yeah I know pretty decent deal for an 8gb. Anyway I was trying to get it to work with Rhythmbox, and I was having some trouble but then I ran across this post on Ubuntu Forums.
So apparently all you have to do in order to get the player to show up in Rhythmbox is to add a file called “.is_audio_player” in the root directory of the Sansa MP3 player.
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Episode #5 – Tekken thumb to the French police
Sorry we’re so late in getting this out. Hopefully, we can get on a regular schedule for putting these podcasts out and maybe some good posts too.
Keep watching and feel free to comment or give suggestions!
- Topics
- “Tekken Thumb”
- Quad-core vs. Dual-core
- Chainlove.com
- The french police adopt ubuntu arstechnica.com
- More talk of communications between linux distributions
- We got Linked!
- “fizzbin” hanselman.com
- deathswitch lifehacker.com
- spokenword.org
- Twitter uses amazon S3 to host it’s images
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Lenovo R500 Review
On January 29th 2009 I bought a new laptop. My old laptop (Dell E1405) was showing it’s age (3 years old). The battery was broken and only lasting 5 minutes but the processing power still performed well for my daily tasks. It had an Intel Core Duo T2300 (1.6ghz) processor and 2.5gb of DDR2. I biggest complaints on the E1405 was the screen and the battery. The 14.1″ screen displayed colors horribly.
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OS Critique: Ubuntu
Well, it’s time to finish critiquing the Big Three desktop operating systems. I’ve already critiqued Windows and Mac, and now I have a few comments about Ubuntu and Linux in general.
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Episode #0
This is the zeroth episode of Pointless Rants (of course it’s zero-indexed, it’s a technology podcast).
In this episode of Pointless Rants we did the following:
- Introduced ourselves – where we’re from, who we are.
- Tom talked about Linux distributions coordinating their distribution schedules so that people will take Linux more seriously.
- Tom introduced us to the amazing, searchable repository of http://koders.com
- Trevor confessed about how he cheats at Facebook games using GreaseMonkey (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748)
- Steve droned on about functional programming languages and got distracted by chat messages. (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html) (http://www.lisp.org)
- We all discussed our different philosophies on laptop selection.
- Trevor introduced us to some of the new features of Windows 7 (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/)
- Tom informed us that it usually isn’t a good idea to pretend to be 10 years old.
- Tom and Steve griped about the many shortcomings of Hotmail (http://v3.izymail.com/Default.aspx)
