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Monthly Archives: December 2007

Magical Ink. I has it.

19-Dec-07

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

18-Dec-07

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?

07-Dec-07

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

04-Dec-07

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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