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Unfortunately, today is the memorial service for my good friend and colleague Joe Scordino and I will be unable to attend. It’s a really rough day for me. Joe was a close friend and an asset to the community at large! I won’t go into much detail here as I try my best to preserve my anonymity on the web. But if you want to know more about a great man and an even better friend, please follow this link: http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=193386

Rest in Peace Joey…

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Today, I am “playing” with a nifty little Linux Distro called Myah OS. For some reason it doesn’t seem quite as intimidating as other Linux distributions. It is available as a live CD (you don’t have to install it to use it) and the hardware requirements are not insane. Check it out at: myah.org

It seems to be designed for the 21st century user in that it comes packed full of multimedia and internet applications directly out of the box!

Currently, I’m trying to add it to our Novell network. Unfortunately, it isn’t always an easy process to get installations to work. That is one of my pet peaves about Linux. 99% of the time (O.K., so maybe it’s 98%), it takes some computer background to install programs. Linux is definately not for the technophobe in your life. At least not yet. Wow, got up on my soapbox there. ahem….

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Because, I know I’ll need this again. A neat little trick to send Ctrl-Alt-Del to an RDP session is to use Ctrl-Alt-End.

If you learn one knew thing a day, that’s 365 more peieces of information you learn a year!

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