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Switching to Linux – update

Nov 04 2009 Published by Paul under Tech

So I thought I’d do a follow up on my previous post about switching to linux as my main operating system and there’s not that much to report. Five days in and everything has been working flawlessly, even a Windows only graphics program that I installed and am using thanks to Wine. My computer is [...]

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Switching to Linux

Oct 30 2009 Published by Paul under Tech

For the past three years or so I’ve been trying out different flavors of Linux. The only version I actually got to work properly was Ubuntu 7.10 on an older desktop computer. Up until today, any time I tried installing Ubuntu on any laptop I’ve had has been either lackluster, with crucial things like wifi [...]

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What VPS hosting customers want

Sep 10 2009 Published by Paul under Tech

For the past three weeks, I’ve been ripping my hair out from frustration. Personal and family problems have been crushing, my work was affected and I had to cut back to part-time so I wouldn’t be dragging down my whole team and people I care about and to top it all off, I’ve been trying [...]

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Big Changes In Alexa Traffic Rank

Apr 03 2009 Published by Paul under Tech

Alexa recently made some big changes to their site and services offered. Now, there’s an obvious change in how the service calculates it’s traffic rank as well. While surfing around earlier, I happened to check the Alexa traffic rank for a site I was viewing and was surprised at how much it’s numbers had dropped. [...]

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