Article Category: Stupid

Giving OpenSUSE 11.1 An Honest Chance

Posted 6 days, 10 hours ago by wheaties

I've decided that if I ever want to really understand Linux, I'll have to give as many distributions as possible a chance. In the past, I've tried to use OpenSUSE on my HP Pavilion dv8000 laptop, but it never seemed quite as robust or useful as many other distributions that I've tried on the same machine.

With the recent release of OpenSUSE 11.1, I downloaded the final 32-bit DVD ISO as I normally do for...

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Four Down, One to Go...

Posted 3 weeks, 5 days ago by wheaties

So I've completed 4 of my 5 finals for the semester. Three of the courses I'm taking right now are for upper-division accounting. Horrid, horrid stuff folks. Though perhaps this is what school is all about.

Up until this point in my college career, I've felt relatively comfortable with studying for maybe an hour just before a final for most any class. Thankfully, I've managed to do pretty well with that strategy...

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Downtime...

Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago by wheaties

For those of you who are actually able to view my site right now, you're lucky.

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Filed in Idiocy, Internet, and Stupid

Dexpot

Posted 4 months ago by wheaties

This is for those of us who need more screen real estate. If you're a fan of Linux-style virtual desktops, but you're forced to use Windows at work, Dexpot might just be the answer to your prayers. It was for me!

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Windows XP: command != cmd

Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago by wheaties

Yet another frustipation concerning Windows.

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Filed in Django, Idiocy, Programming, Python, Stupid, and Windows

CIT-410: Last Camping Update (I hope)

Posted 11 months, 2 weeks ago by wheaties

Final comments on the whole CIT-410 camping fiasco.

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CIT-410: More on Camping

Posted 11 months, 2 weeks ago by wheaties

A letter to my professor.

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CIT-410: Horrid, miserable, absolutely pointless camping trip: a letter to my team

Posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago by wheaties

A letter to my team members.

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Format Large Drives as FAT32 in Windows

Posted 2 years ago by wheaties

I recently purchased a 120GB drive to use as a shared disk between computers. Since I use several operating systems regularly, I wanted a format that all could play well with. Here's what I had to do.

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