On my Dell 1501 notebook, the user account is flaky. The shutdown button will disappear from the panel. The wifi will stop working. Ubuntu 10.04 will freeze up at times. Therefore, I had to do something. Unfortunately, the solution is not one that is likely to please everyone. Every user must have an administrator account
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Ubuntu 10.04 crashes with user accounts
Looking over the article about the $100 US IPad clone which can be found at http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/predicts_stiff_competition_ipad_100_android_tablets, I question if it will really be as good as Apple’s IPad. The hardware needs to be either purchased from a supplier and/or manufactured in-house. Furthermore, faster processors cost more than slower ones. For example, desktop processors can be
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Apple’s IPad Will Have Competition
After the 1950 external version broke down from overheating, http://aprivatebeach.com/blog/2009/04/using-the-hauppauge-wintv-hvr-1950/, I decided to purchase the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 PCI version. Since I only had one PCI slot and zero PCI Express slots left, which one to buy was an easy decision. Just like the 1950 version, WinTV version 6 must be used on Windows XP. WinTV
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Using the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600
I tried to update Ubuntu 10.04, but it ended up crashing. Therefore, I had no other choice but to reboot. Upon rebooting, I ended up getting the following error message when I tried to update Ubuntu 10.04. ‘E:Malformed 2nd word in the Status line, E:Error occurred while processing libsasl2-modules (UsePackage1), E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status, E:The
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Unable to update Ubuntu 10.04
When it comes to upgrading Ubuntu, people often question what are the differences. Furthermore, people often will question if it is worth upgrading. Fortunately, I will explain the differences for those that are curious. When it comes to installing packages, going online and downloading the latest and greatest program such as OpenOffice from the Internet
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Difference between Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 and Ubuntu Lucid 10.04
Nabokov succinctly captures the two sides of cynicism–one jaded and pessimistic, the other selfish and contemptuous–in the person of the sadistic Axel Rex: On such occasions Rex could talk endlessly, indefatigably, inventing stories about non-existent friends and propounding reflections not too profound for the mind of his listener and couched in a sham-brilliant form. His culture
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Cynicism
For a neurotic nature such as mine–one, that is to say, in which the intermediaries, the nerves, perform their functions badly, fail to arrest on its way to consciousness, allow indeed to reach it, distinct, exhausting, innumerable and distressing, the plaints of the most humble elements of the self which are about to disappear–the anxiety
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Proust on Homesickness
When a document gets sent to the Samsung CLP-315 printer, it is no longer in the printer queue. Therefore, canceling the job while it is being printed is not possible that way. The only way to cancel a print job is to: pull out the paper tray. wait til the printer stops printing. The green power light
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How to cancel a print job on a Samsung CLP-315
When people purchase a computer, there are some people out there that do not understand why desktops are always faster. Therefore, I will explain. When a person buys a car, it always has a radiator. The radiator’s purpose is to keep the engine from overheating. The Bugatti Veyron has 10 radiators with a top speed of
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Tablets, netbooks, notebooks, and Desktops, why is the speed different
Being around since the dark ages of black and white(monochrome) computer monitors, I know quite a bit about computer hardware. Therefore, AMD’s Vision does not appeal to me. Although, when it comes to people who know little and/or do not care about the hardware, AMD’s Vision makes sense. Many people I talk to only know of
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AMD’s Vision vs Intel Inside
By my lights, then, Brandom’s attitude to metaphysics seems excessively irenic. I want to follow Hume, Ramsey, Ryle, Wittgenstein and Blackburn, in dismissing, or at best deflating, large parts of that discipline. Whereas Brandom – though engaged in fundamentally the same positive enquiry, the same pragmatic explanatory project – seems strangely reluctant to engage with the old enemy
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Huw Price on Robert Brandom
As fascinating as it may seem, computers are becoming the tool of choice for many. For example, in order to buy premium domain names that have expired, one can create a program that will try to purchase the domain name at the exact moment that it expires. For example, a domain name with an intrinsic
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High Frequency Trading aka Algorithmic trading
Some free webspaces can support PHP. Unfortunately, there are very few that support a database. Therefore, there are 2 options available for those who would like to host a blog, wiki, and/or other CMS on a webspace that has PHP but no database support. Look for CMS’s that use SQLite. SQLite is a flat file database.
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Hosting a blog, wiki, or other CMS on a free webspace with PHP support but no database
This is the first time I have tried to update Ubuntu to 10.04 Lucid from 8.04 Hardy using the upgrade option. The steps are pretty straightforward, but I had to watch the installation process. There are several error messages that will pop up, and the only thing that can be done is to ignore the
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Upgrading Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy to 10.04 Lucid
This week at CrunchGear , we’re looking back at some of our favorite gadgets from the not-so-distant past — old phones, computers, media players, toys… those devices that still stand out in our memories despite their obsolescence. Feel free to contribute some of your own nostalgia.
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Gadgets of days gone by: HP DeskJet 500
When it comes to borrowing money to buy that car, house, or other large purchase, we all cringe at the thought of paying interest. Although, if we apply the CRA rules, the interest paid to the lender can be tax deductible. For most people, this will be the purchasing of securities, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_finance. For others, this will
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Make all interest paid on loans tax deductible Canada
I am currently involved in the high stakes game of buying and selling of stocks. With a wad of cash in my hand, $5000, I will see how much I will win or lose. For those wanting to learn how to buy stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and/or index funds, http://www.morningstar.com/cover/Classroom.html, provides free online courses that will
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Playing the Stock Market Game
When it comes to purchasing a computer, I am always wary of used, refurbished or scratch and dent varieties. Although, when it comes to notebooks, I will make an exception if the price is right. Notebooks, unlike desktop computers, have limited selection on parts. For example, one cannot go to Dell and request ABC graphics card
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Buying a refurbished notebook and/or desktop computer April 2010
In dealing with Disch’s work , there was so much I had to leave out. I finished the article with an even greater respect for Disch’s achievement as well as a sadness that the rawness and brutality of his work perhaps confined him more to the generic ghetto than some of his peers. Certainly the quality and erudition of his writing matched any of his contemporaries
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Thomas M. Disch Appendix
So help me God it gets more and more preposterous, it corresponds less and less to what I remember and what I expect as if the force of life were centrifugal and threw one further and further away from one’s purest memories and ambitions; and I can barely recall the old house where I was raised, where in midwinter Parma violets bloomed in a cold frame near the kitchen door, and down the long corridor, past the seven views of Rome–up two steps and down three–one entered the library where all the were in order the lamps were bright, where there was a fire and a dozen bottles of good bourbon locked in a cabinet with a veneer like a tortoise shell whose silver key my father wore on his watch chain. Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice, but in a world that changes more swiftly than we can perceive there is always the danger that our powers of selection will be mistaken and that the vision we serve will come to nothing. We admire decency and we admire death but even the mountains seem to shift in the space of night and perhaps the exhibitionist at the corner of Chestnut and Elm streets is more significant than the lovely woman with a bar of sunlight in her hair, putting a fresh piece of cuttlebone in the nightingale’s cage.
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John Cheever