Tag Archives: mumbuntu

You have been eaten by a grue

By popey | Published: February 24, 2010
Thu 18th Feb I previously blogged about the training for Ubuntu available from Canonical. Today I went through the sample chapters – which incidentally is insanely hard to find. I was told the training was available in the Canonical store. I happened to know the url for the store so went direct to shop.canonical.com but [...]
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Educating Mum

By popey | Published: February 19, 2010
Continuing my Mumbuntu saga … Wed 17th Feb Today my Mum went to the local library to ask about computer training. I had a brief chat with her and she seemed to enjoy it. Apparently the woman in the library showed her Google for searching and Google Maps so she could see a picture of [...]
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The Clone(zilla) Wars

By popey | Published: February 18, 2010
Continuing my Mumbuntu saga … Monday 15th Feb Today I was watching the UPS package tracking website to see if/when the Acer Aspire Revo had arrived home. Pretty much as soon as I got through the door I unpacked one of the revos and set it up on my desk and connected to one of [...]
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Click Next Next Next Finish

By popey | Published: February 17, 2010
Saturday 13th Feb I got the Compaq Evo desktop back to my house and on my desk today. The first thing I did was open up the box and see what we had inside. It’s a 1.7GHz CPU with 512MB RAM (2x128MiB + 1x256MiB), 250GB IDE hard disk, nVidia video card and CD-ROM drive. I [...]
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A Clean Slate

By popey | Published: February 17, 2010
I’m back-filling my blog with a few posts which cover the work I’ve done on Mumbuntu. So there will be a flurry of posts over the next day or so. Normal slack scheduled blog posts will be resumed shortly Friday 12th Feb Today I went to Mums to look at the computer. She doesn’t have [...]
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