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IT Infrastructure and Software Development from the Customer's Perspective

Saturday, 29 December 2012

Fixing a Crash in Team Fortress 2

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My son wanted Team Fortress 2 for Christmas. So far we've been mostly blessed with not having to feed a relentless video game appetite ...
Sunday, 30 September 2012

Cinnamon Performance -- It was Chrome's Fault

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I've written lately about my struggles with sluggish Ubuntu and Mint desktops. Finally, I discovered that Chrome was the problem . At on...

Long Fat Networks

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Long fat networks are high bandwidth, high latency networks. "High latency" is relative, meaning high latency compared to a LAN. ...
Sunday, 16 September 2012

Ubuntu and Mint Very Slow

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I've been struggling for some time with poor performance of Ubuntu , and now Mint , on my Dell Vostro 1440. Admittedly it's a cheap ...
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Installing Ruby on Rails on Linux Mint 13

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A few months after my last post about installing Ruby on Rails, and much has changed. There was an issue with zlib so I had to flail around...
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Sunday, 2 September 2012

Use Mate with Cheap Hardware

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[Update: This whole post is a lie. See how Chrome is the culprit here . and see my confirmation that Cinnamon is fine here .] A few weeks ...
Sunday, 19 August 2012

Goodbye Ubuntu Desktop

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As of about three weeks ago I'm using Linux Mint 13 with the Cinnamon desktop. I don't even know what half of that means. I'm ju...
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Larry Reid is a Principal Consultant at Jade Systems Inc (www.jadesystems.ca). Jade provides project management, business analysis, software development and general IT consulting services.
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