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Posts Tagged ‘laptop’

Dell Mini 10 and Crunchbang

In Computing on 27 December 2009 tagged Computing, dell, firefox, laptop, Linux, netbook, thunderbird with 6 comments

Over the past week and a bit, I’ve been playing around with Crunchbang Linux on a Dell Mini 10 netbook. The experience has been entertaining at least and Crunchbang works surprisingly well once you get it configured.

Out of the box, Cunchbang is a fairly minimalist desktop environment, using Openbox and Tint as the desktop and [...]

I am William Gibson’s new character

In Technology on 18 September 2007 tagged bradsucks, ds, gobag, harddrive, iPod, laptop, macbook, nintendo, portable, storage, Technology, terabyte with 5 comments

(Apologies to Brad Sucks who really is William Gibson’s new character and whose post coincided with my thoughts on this)
I’ve had a blog post sort of percolating around in my head for a couple of weeks, and thought I’d take a few minutes to try to get it out there. It’s a bit meta. As [...]