Category Archives: Linux

Ubuntu, upgrades, insanity and me

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” —Albert Einstein “‘Holy crap no way that actually worked’: doing something, failing, ignoring it for years, coming back, trying again and having it work.” —Grant Lammi “Insane … Continue reading

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Linux and the ISV, it ain’t what it used to be

I was first introduced to Linux when I was college in the mid-90′s. Well, it really wasn’t an introduction since it isn’t a person, but you get the idea. Back then all our coursework was done on VMS on a … Continue reading

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lpr YouStupidPrinterTakeThis.txt

The other day I had the joy and the privilege to debug some printing code. Oh yeah, it was as much as fun as you might be thinking. To make it even better the bug was showing up only on … Continue reading

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