Head Geekette on June 18th, 2010

This post was originally published on March 21, 2008.
I downloaded the latest release of VMWare Server 1.0 and found myself looking at the installation screen for about one second before it disappeared. I ran the installer several times and thought perhaps I got a corrupt copy. So I deleted the file and downloaded a new [...]

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This post was originally published on May 28, 2009.
I tried to get the Logitech Quickcam Messenger to work first. A few clicks led me to qc-usb, a Linux driver for Quickcam USB cameras. As it turns out though, this driver doesn’t support my particular webcam model. But it did tell me that there was another [...]

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Head Geekette on June 14th, 2010

This post was originally published on July 4, 2009.
There are a lot of online storage providers nowadays.  All of them taking advantage of cloud computing.  I first started off with Dropbox and I’ve yet to try out Box.net.  Sometime in May 2009 I signed up for yet another online storage provider.  Ubuntu One is similar [...]

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