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And the fun begins

Posted on March 29, 2013April 1, 2013 By Michael Kavka No Comments on And the fun begins

The nice thing about training in a test environment is you can blow things up and not have to worry about it. Its more fun when the training exercise you are doing blows up in your face and you have to go from just learning mode to troubleshooting mode just to complete the exercise. I…

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Ubuntu 9.04 Review Part 2

Posted on May 1, 2009 By Michael Kavka 2 Comments on Ubuntu 9.04 Review Part 2

So, its been around a week that I have had the latest version of Ubuntu installed on my lappy and I have more thoughts and a couple of gripes on it. The new version of Gnome that comes with it is slick. Doesn’t look all that different, but some of the small changes are nice,…

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And now for something completely different

Posted on April 3, 2009 By Michael Kavka No Comments on And now for something completely different

Server 2008 is a nice Operating System. Works pretty smooth, pretty easy to find things in it, DFRS management could be a little bit easier, but the biggest problem I have with it so far is… Aero. That’s right the stupid looking, pain in the arse, Vista look. I can hear you now saying, “Come…

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