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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-05

shawn — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:00:00 +0000

RT @nerdbastards: Finally Some Ghostbusters 3 Plot Details! http://bit.ly/9mUfBr -> cool, but not holding my breath #
Ever had one of those WTF nights. Yeah, I am having one. #
Reading "The Road" right now. Holding off on watching the movie until I finish it. #
Found out I have a punctured ear drum at my physical today. Supposedly it has been there for awhile?! WTF?! No fun. #
At the doctor a second time this week, not a fan. Nothing personal doc. #
About 12 hours and I am on a flight to Vegas, booyah! Last vacation for a long time (until end of year). #
What is with all of the OSU fans here at the airport? I quack in your general direction. #UofOFan #
Gives you warn and fuzzes (in the LV airport). #FAIL http://twitpic.com/2kxgez #
In "The Revolution" club after "Live". Awesome show! http://twitpic.com/2le3qe #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-29

shawn — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0000

Back in civilization. Great time camping at Lake Simtustus, but good to be back home. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-22

shawn — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0000

Looking forward to camping this weekend, need a 3 day weekend. Very tired. #

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shawn — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0000

Great weekend for son's 10th bday! Rode in hummer limo, then off to his party! http://twitpic.com/2d51j8 #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-08

shawn — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0000

Thanks to everybody who has donated to my wife's Relay for Life efforts. She is only $100 short from getting in to the $1k club! #
I am really liking this Ubuntu on my netbook. As soon as I have an office again, I am so tempted to reload my desktop with it. #
Watching Shark Week on Discovery. Wow, talk about Jaws flashbacks. Probably going to have nightmares tonight. #
Anybody playing GodVille http://bit.ly/a9WN3I? Great lazy MMORPG. #Godville #
"It's a trap!", per Sheldon. #
Random picture from my walk this AM with the dog. http://twitpic.com/2b9jxc #
Prepping for a 4 hour long kick off meeting for a client upgrade today. #
Amazing Lego ‘CubeDudes’ by PIXAR Animator Angus MacLane - http://bit.ly/9HUDVy #
Been a long week, Beer Thursday for me. #fb http://twitpic.com/2bz5q0 #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-01

shawn — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0000

Looks like I am getting prepped to be thrown on some more projects. Crazy! #
Star Wars never looked so real. http://bit.ly/bjZXqa #
Watched Jaws III without the 3D. Makes for a really funny movie. Felt like MST3K. #

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My Netbook and Ubuntu Linux

shawn — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:31:04 +0000

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A couple of weekends ago I was working on my Asus 901 netbook, and it was just running dog slow and spitting up multiple errors at boot after logging in. I loaded Windows 7 on it (using nlite) last summer, which was kind of a pain to load, but was a fun experiment and got my feat wet with Windows 7. Initially Windows 7 worked OK, but just started to slow down and give out random errors, then I would get Windows Update notifications that would not install for various reasons. It was becoming frustrating, as at times I just wanted to boot the thing up and check my e-mail or send out a tweet.

The netbook's drives where a 4GB and 16GB. There might be ways around it now, but I had to load the Windows OS partition on the 4GB drive and do multiple links to program files on the 16GB partition. I upgraded the netbook to the max physical memory allowed, 2GB, but that was really the only thing I did to it. I also had a heck of a time searching out drivers for the Asus that would work properly. Again, to be fair, this was last summer so there may be a better way to do this now.

I browsed around on the web, contemplated various linux distributions (eeebuntu, which I think is now Aurora and easypeasy was another, and a slew of others). I decided to try out Ubuntu 10.04, the netbook edition, from a USB thumb drive to see how it would work. I picked the netbook version of Ubuntu because I didn't see a need to load a bunch of applications that I wouldn't be using my netbook for. I primarily use my netbook to check e-mail, surf the web, etc, not any real "hardcore" stuff. I backed up the original netbook, then downloaded a copy of Ubuntu, and got a running copy going on a USB thumb drive. After the first boot up, I was hooked. I was amazed at how things just worked. No messing around with drivers. The netbook's wifi found my access point, I entered in my security info, and was out on in the Internet in seconds. After playing around with it for about a hour, I decided to select the install feature from the system menu, and had a clean system loaded in about 30 minutes.

I really like Windows 7, but after seeing what this did for my netbook, for me making it useful again, I am contemplating trying it out on my desktop (the full version) at home as well. I don't really play video intensive games anymore (no time, grrr), so this maybe the way to go. It is an older machine, so I might be able to get a few more years of life out of it. I really like the fact I can try it out on a USB thumb drive and give a run through its hoops.

For reference, take a look at this blog for tweaking certain things for your SSD drives and this article for how to load the eee-control features as well.

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shawn — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0000

RT @PlanetV12n: Handy Screenshot sharing tool : Gyazo (VMwareInfo.com) http://bit.ly/cs6o6k <- nice tool, just don't do something private #
Had a great time at Beaverton Relay for life. Did 3 miles on my laps. http://twitpic.com/28eoxk #
Just finished Boneshaker by @cmpriest Awesome book, want more! http://twitpic.com/28eqr4 #

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shawn — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0000

RT @reckless: Collected iPhone 4 experiences from ppl around the industry to see how bad the antenna problem really is: http://is.gd/dqRG6 #
Going to load ubuntu on the netbook. Windows 7 just doesn't like playing on 4gigs. #
Wow, Ubuntu 10.04 (netbook version) just works on my eeepc 901. Running off USB key as well. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-11

shawn — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0000

Star Warz as LOL - http://bit.ly/ayZlxy #
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels movie night. Classic! Rupert the Monkey Boy! #fb #
Just got the notice my iPhone is on it's way, yeah! #
This is way too true... http://bit.ly/b0rjsI #
Yes! Waiting for me today! http://twitpic.com/23l6dj #

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