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Category: home office

  • The not-quite-early days of Linux

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    Hackaday ran a good-ol’-days story on Linux in the 1990s. So here’s my recollection, all IIRC. I built a PC for Windows 95, with two 4MB sticks of RAM and an Asus motherboard from Egghead (reborn as newegg). It was very unstable and eventually I figured out the motherboard had something funky going on with…

  • New workstation setup

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    I bought a new workstation this month (Dell Precision 7730 notebook) and in the course of setting it up I kept banging my head against Windows security. I was just trying to map drives and set up Remote Desktop between the new Windows 11 machine and my old Windows 10 notebook. I started to suspect…