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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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New wallpaper. Thought I’d share. This is inspired by the Longhorn “Bliss” wallpaper, and this cat from this list of amusing cat pictures.
I find the scene oddly pleasing.
Also, I’m starting to turn into a Linux fanboi — mainly from running Xgl on Ubuntu. The visual effects make working fun, and the tools and […]

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Thanks to this article/howto, I finally got a successful installation of xgl under ubuntu 6.06 (at work).
Key things that were causing me problems, previously:

Was not running the SMP kernel, stupidly
Did not run the nvidia config with options to support multiple displays

It’s pretty sweet. Now that I’ve got the correct NFS mount stuff set up so […]

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