Category Archives: Computer Support

Movable Type 3.31 and Ubuntu 6.06

Posted on July 19, 2006 by Pace Arko

So there’s been a lot of extensive, yet subtle change over the last few weeks here at the mighty, mighty Farlops Industries: After a period of stasis for 7 months, I moved all of my site’s legacy content into Movable … Continue reading →

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The Neverending Battle Against Bloatware

Posted on July 1, 2006 by Pace Arko

Spent all of last night and early morning making revisions to my test installation of MT3.2. Made good progress. Going to see Superman Returns later today, which sort of suggested this entry’s title. This entry is really a test to … Continue reading →

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Useful stuff to know about XP and Linux

Posted on September 12, 2005 by Pace Arko

coLinux: and open source Linux emulator. Run Linux inside NT5+ without buying VMWare. There are other ways to emulate Linux inside NT5+ with other open source emulators. I really don’t know why I started exploring this, either I multiboot, use … Continue reading →

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Old clunky hardware

Posted on May 24, 2005 by Pace Arko

You know the hardware is old and broken when you can’t even get it install Linux. Yes, I have kernal boot floppies around but these old laptops either don’t have a floppy, the BIOS won’t support boot from CD or … Continue reading →

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Something I suspected for a long time

Posted on July 10, 2004 by Pace Arko

By way of the Web Standards Project I came across an essay that, among discussing other things, states that web browsers will eventually become, the only application platform that matters, and that Microsoft may be ignoring this to their peril. … Continue reading →

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New Year's Cleaning

Posted on February 13, 2004 by Pace Arko

After spending a few hundred dollars on a used laptop (Of the same model as my old one with a cracked screen and which now stands to be cannibalized for parts.), a roomy drive and an 802.11 (b+g) transceiver, I … Continue reading →

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Personal E-mail Security: The Definitive Guide

Posted on July 30, 2003 by Pace Arko

Many of my friends have been on Internet for years and years. They have the knowing of the Way of the Machine. And they know what to do when it comes to keeping their mail accounts free of spam, worms, … Continue reading →

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Network Admin to the Stars

Posted on March 28, 2003 by Pace Arko

Just got home a few hours ago after spending some time at my nephew’s house trying to get his playstations to work through the firewall of his router. It was an interesting learning experience but, I didn’t really arrive at … Continue reading →

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Hofstadter's Title

Posted on March 26, 2003 by Pace Arko

Anyway, I’ve been busy this last week with work, mostly adding a bunch of content to Blinksoft and doing some network administration for a doctor’s office, so I haven’t really had time to post here. Work on the Greymatter update … Continue reading →

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My own mod of Greymatter

Posted on March 12, 2003 by Pace Arko

Well, it’s a work in progress. After removing some bugs that people have found, plus the ones I already knew were there, I think it’s ready for prime time. Feel free to try it out (If you want to look … Continue reading →

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