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Just in case any users out there have a laptop like mine or similar, I decided to post info about my Linux laptop so they can be assured that blowing away Windows isn’t a bad move.

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I finally got the builtin wifi card working on my laptop. Apparently all it took was a kernel update for things to work properly.
I used the fwcutter method found here. Good stuff.
Odd that it didn’t work under Feisty (when I tried it), but it works fine now. It’s nice to not have to use […]

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Yesterday I took the plunge and installed the Feisty Beta of Ubuntu on the laptop. It was a long, slow process — I installed via “update-manager -d” rather than from CD. What follows is a short analysis and rumination on the ordeal.

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If you’re trying to work from home but you discover that you forgot to check something into SVN at work, you can ssh into your work box remotely and resolve the problem.
Sorry, I just had a geek jiz, a little.

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I would totally use Google Reader to manage and follow my RSS subscriptions, but it consistently refuses to update from the following:
del.iciou.us
ma.gnolia.com
any wordpress-based site
Sometimes it shows updates on the left-hand side for Ars Technica, but even when that happens it doesn’t update the right-hand pane list of articles.
I need a suggestion for a different app, […]

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