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From Win to Ubuntu to Linux Mint
I installed Ubuntu on an old laptop to fix my Sansa e280 last week. A couple of days later I changed the distro to Linux Mint KDE 18.2 64bit UEFI. It’s running great on that old HP laptop. On Tuesday of this week I put that same iso on a DVD to dual-boot install Linux…
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Obstacles to happiness
I’ve given a lot of thought to older device use lately, well ongoing for many, many months now. I love modern devices, but there is something Neo-Victorian in me that is reviving old things, and putting them to use as well as I can. [<3] [things for one purpose, when all-in-one gadgets surround me.] Latest…
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Dual-Booting and Data Reclaiming
I have a Seagate GoFlex Desktop 3TB drive, I wrote a post about it previously to this one. I was able to get a live Ubuntu DVD going which proved via Testdisk that I did have harvest-able data on it. That just wouldn’t work on my big Desktop computer though. I finally just bit the…
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Data, data, no where to put it
I had problems with my main computer the other day, it was acting weird, not a virus. So I also found at that point that my Seagate GoFlex 3TB Desktop drive was malfunctioning. I made a new profile in Windows 8.1 and everything was fine, except for that Seagate drive. It’s a real downer because…