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Article posted on Oct 31

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• Posted by Ryan Finnie on October 31, 2005, 12:21 pm

Athlon64 3200+ (Venice 939)
Gigabyte K8U-939
1GB generic memory (512MBx2)
WD 80GB SATA drive
ATI Radeon 9250
NEC 16X DVD-+RW/DL drive
Generic black case w/300W PSU
Windows Tax (XP Pro)

Total damage: $588.20

It arrived, and I just assembled it. Looks neat, runs great (not top-of-the-line, but can't beat it for the price).

Now, to assemble the other 4. :)

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Article posted on Oct 26

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• Posted by Ryan Finnie on October 26, 2005, 3:18 pm

<@psykoyiko> e not used any of those, so I will refrain from making a recommendation. I will say, however, that to my mind using a package manager that resolves dependencies for you with Slackware is like singing "Kumbaya" at a meeting of the American Atheists. It just doesn't seem to fit the Slackware philosophy.
<@psykoyiko> that philosophy being "make life hard for yourself"
<@[|^__^|]> or "We will recreate 4.3BSD and go no further!"

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Article posted on Oct 24

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• Posted by Ryan Finnie on October 24, 2005, 4:08 pm

I just tried to feed my debit card to the snack machine. I need professional help.

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Article posted on Oct 24

Finnix 86.0 Released

• Posted by Ryan Finnie on October 24, 2005, 1:03 am

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=505408 (Ain't I good at writin'?)

Nearly 6 years ago, Finnix 0.03 made history as one of the first bootable CD Linux distributions. It may have taken awhile, but Finnix is back as a small (less than 100MB), fully-featured LiveCD for system administrators.

Finnix 86.0 includes 336 Debian packages, Linux kernel 2.6.13, and advanced system utilities such as LVM2. You can mount and manipulate hard drives and partitions, monitor networks, rebuild boot records, install other operating systems, and much more. Finnix can be run in as little as 32MB RAM, but if you have at least 192MB RAM, you can run the entire distribution from a ramdisk, saving access time during use, at the expense of a small wait during boot while the CD is copied to RAM (this wait is negligible due to the distribution's small size).

Most importantly, Finnix can be burned to a "Mini-CDR", which, as a fashion statement, goes great with your laptop bag or pocket.

Please visit http://www.finnix.org/ to learn more or download a copy!

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Article posted on Oct 21

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• Posted by Ryan Finnie on October 21, 2005, 2:50 pm

A truly historic event happened yesterday. For over 10 years, I had been using pine for personal email. But yesterday, I switched to thunderbird.

What was the catalyst? I found an extension that fulfilled the one requirement that thunderbird didn't have: the ability to aribtrarily set the "From:" line, without having to "manage identities" or something. That module is Virtual Identity.

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Article posted on Oct 20

"Excuse me miss, but I cannot help staring at your signage."

• Posted by Ryan Finnie on October 20, 2005, 9:05 am

OK, standard fedex logo. Sorry if you already know about this trick.

Notice anything unusual about the logo? Read the rest of this entry »

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Article posted on Oct 19

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• Posted by Ryan Finnie on October 19, 2005, 10:43 am

I have a mild allergic reaction to walnuts. So why must walnuts be on tasty things? Like those pepperidge farm chocolate-covered cookie things on the breakroom table, with crushed walnuts on top? I see them, debate eating one, walk away, come back, debate some more, then end up eating one anyways. Then my mouth hurts.[0x01] It tasted good though.

[0x01] I said "mild" allergy. My throat doesn't swell shut or anything.

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Article posted on Oct 18

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• Posted by Ryan Finnie on October 18, 2005, 3:21 pm

I've spent the better part of the last 24 hours wrestling with making my newly-bought 512MB USB key reliably boot. As of now, though, I've got a key with a dev version of Finnix that boots... on, like, a lot of stuff!

This functionality will be in the final verson, come hell or high water.

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Article posted on Oct 17

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• Posted by Ryan Finnie on October 17, 2005, 12:12 am

I saw Serenity tonight. When I walked into the theater, shortly after the previews started, it was completely empty. (A couple minutes later, 3 people walked in.)

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Article posted on Oct 16

Can you tell I live next to a college?

• Posted by Ryan Finnie on October 16, 2005, 12:45 am

(No, it's not my car. Sorry about the bad lighting adjustments.)

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