Monthly Archives: December 2007

Magical Ink. I has it.

I'm starting to think that the toner cartridges in my HP OfficeJet 5610v are all sorts of magical or something. As a general rule, I don't like inkjets -- I got tired of replacing ink cartridges in my first printer pretty quickly in college, and I had nothing but bad experiences with inkjets in the places [...]
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Cleaning keyboards

I may have to try this... 43 Folders has a post on cleaning keyboards by putting them in the dishwasher. I'd usually wince at the prospect of putting an expensive (well, semi-expensive -- the ergo keyboards aren't cheap...) piece of hardware into the dishwasher, but after looking at my keyboard, it's clear that it needs a [...]
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Hey LazyWeb! Best Linux distro for a MacBooK?

OK, I've been surfing around a bit, but my Google-Fu is failing me somewhat. What's the best distro (i.e., works right out of the box, if at all possible) for a MacBook? This is a recent vintage MacBook, with an Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM. I've been searching, but I keep running into docs that [...]
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Geek out without fear

One of the things I abhor about U.S. culture is that, more often than not, a love of learning and knowledge is shunned -- being an intellectual or bookish person often means being picked on in school and mocked and/or avoided in later life. We claim to appreciate intelligence, but our culture really tends to [...]
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