Archive for the ‘HowTo’ Category

RSI Woes, Finally Solved

I've had RSI/carpal tunnel syndrome for about ten years now, and last week, I finally found a solution that didn't involve surgery. A Tiny Bit of History My freshman year I enjoyed my new-found freedom in a few different ways, but one way playing computer games whenever I felt like it. I played a lot of Quake [...]

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After 10 Years, Trying Fedora Again; Wireless Fails and Fixes

I started using Linux back in 1997 when a buddy and I put Slackware, floppy by floppy, onto a Pentium 133.  I didn’t start using it full time until a couple years later, when Microsoft started requiring online registration with product keys.  Since then, I’ve used Red Hat, Gentoo, Debian, Arch and Ubuntu.  I abandoned [...]

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Using TiddlyWiki

Though perputually on the verge of total disorganization in the physical realm, I try to keep my digital world very organized.  Because of this, I habitually try to move more and more of my life into a digital representation, which allows easy backup, searching and reorganization.  Although I have tried many free and proprietary software [...]

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OS X Bootable Clones with Free Tools

In the last post, I use the excellent SuperDuper! tool to make abootable clone of my hard drive. There are some (more advanced)techniques that can be used that allow bootable clones to be createdon the command line using free tools. I had some trouble gettingclones to work on the command line, but finally worked through [...]

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Added Disk Clone & Upgrade Tutorial Video for Macbook

The Macbook I bought back in May of 2007 has been getting a bit long in the tooth. Shortly after I bought it, I upgraded the RAM to 2 GB, so the memory and the processor have been holding up just fine for me, as I mainly program and use VMWare (not much gaming). But, [...]

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