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Dapper Drake and the Dell X1

As I mentioned, I decided to give up the faithful and anorexically thin Sharp MM10 for a Dell Latitude X1 after I got to play with one at PyCon in Dallas. It came last week and I decided to put it to the test by loading Ubuntu Dapper Drake, flight 4 on it. Amazing, it […]

I’ve enjoyed the RHL and FC distros quite a bit. They’re popular, they put a lot of effort into the Desktop experience, and they’ve been fairly easy to install and maintain. Now a lot of users have complained about the dreaded “RPM Hell” where one package depends upon another which depends upon a third. That’s […]

Live from PyCon 2006

Live from beautiful (and rainy) Addison, Texas, it’s Pycon 2006. Or as we used to say when I lived here, “Sure, it’s cold, plastic, and heartless. But it’s not bad.”
The conference is actually pretty good, with its usual high geek quotient. My talk yesterday on teaching programming to 8th graders was well received. I got […]






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