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Linksys WRT300N v1 and dd-WRT v24 firmware

Posted by Jason on June 4, 2008

This isn’t really directly related to Ubuntu, but I tried to install the latest dd-WRT firmware (v24) on my Linksys WRT300N (v1) router last week. Read the rest of this entry »

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Dual-Booting Ubuntu and WinXP on my laptop

Posted by Jason on May 9, 2008

I may have to do some travelling soon, so I wanted to get Ubuntu on my laptop. Not only would this reduce my time having to mess about in Windows, but it was would be a good chance to learn some new things about Ubuntu. Read the rest of this entry »

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Converting the wife from XP to Ubuntu

Posted by Jason on January 13, 2008

If I can do it…

So far, my move to Ubuntu has been a great success and I like it more as I learn more. There’s one more box in the household here – the wife’s. Now, all she does is a few casual games (spider solitaire, othello and the like), surf, blog and email – and some minor related tasks like very simple image editing. I’m getting more comfortable with Ubuntu, so I figure it’s time to move her over as well. Her computer is my old desktop, a P4 1.7GHz with 1GB of RAM and 2 80G drives – not worthless, but certainly not “peppy” under WinXP.

She doesn’t know or care about a computer outside of those uses, and gets bored to death if I have to explain something to her. The box is not virus/spyware or otherwise crippled, it’s a WinXP SP2 install that I kept up-to-date with anti-virus and anti-spyware checks.

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