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Lucid Lynx (10.04) and GRUB on Windows 7

By jama22 | Published: June 20, 2010
In a previous post (Recovering GRUB After Installing Windows 7) I described a situation where GRUB would not be able to detect your Windows 7 boot partition after you installed Ubuntu.  The fix was to point the root directory to a small (or secret?) partition outside of the main Windows 7 NTFS partition. I recently [...]
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Python Shell Commands, /bin/sh: Syntax error

By jama22 | Published: January 29, 2010
This semester, Derek and I have been doing some work on Postgres’ buffer management system for my CSC443 Database Systems Technology course.  Derek, wrote a nice little Python script that parses various Postgres outputs and does a bit of math on it. However, when I tried to run his script on my machine, I got [...]
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Bluetooth Tethering: BB Bold + Ubuntu 8.10

By jama22 | Published: April 6, 2009
In my continuing struggle to Linux-fy my X200, I blew away my entire hard drive and loaded the latest Ubuntu (8.10 – Intrepid Ibex).  I’m liking it so far. One of the things with using Ubuntu is that you have to configure most of the hardware yourself.   I had a bit of trouble getting the [...]
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