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My experiences with installing Ubuntu on a PowerBook G4

So I got a PowerBook G4. Yay! Only problem is, Mac OS X 10.5.8 is just borderline useful in 2016, especially on a PowerPC machine with 512MB RAM. That, and I grew frustrated with the way how Mac OS X is designed. So, I decided to install Linux on it. Here's how things went down:   Downloaded Ubuntu MATE 15.10 PowerPC ISO Wrote it to an 8GB flash drive using LiLi Tried booting to it, it wouldn't boot Tried using the Mini ISO instead Mini ISO was missing a lot o
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Sakura's Farewell

Unlike some other posts I've posted on this blog, this one is rather serious.   In May of 2001, we were looking for a new cat after another was unfortunately killed by a car on a busy street down the street from our house. On the 12th, we adopted a mostly-dark cat covered in varying shades of brown and gray, with one orange spot on her forehead. We named her Sakura, Japanese for "cherry blossom". Oh, what a fitting name that was. Ever since she was a kitten, she was always on her best
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Set up a makeshift server room in my closet

Excuse the mess, I store things in here too. Anyway, I decided I wanted a server for... something, but then I decided why should I pay for something like a Raspberry Pi when I can just set up one of those computers my dad gave me as a server? So I installed Ubuntu on one and arranged it like this. Now a day later, I think I've finalized how I'll have my "server room" laid out.   Right now I'm running a Minecraft server on it, but I also have bind9 installed in case I decide to do other things
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guys can you help me with my PC (joke)

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/b6BsTW   i choes intel celeron becuz i had celron in my old pce an it wuz fien an i clerly dont ned beter an 4-way corsofire titan xs 4 maxmum poawr   howver i herd abut somefing cald "bottlenecking" but dasb ulsht, botlneking is a lei, celron isz perkft   wil dis pec b fijne?????   yes, this is a joke. yes, I put effort into making those typos.
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Just how private is your smartphone?

Do you think your smartphone is private? Because if you do please stop thinking that.   "But Daring, I can just remove Google apps! That'll make my phone private!"   That'll just keep Google from spying on you, if you own an Android device. In reality, your smartphone (and even dumb phones, to a certain extent) contains records of your text messages, photos, GPS location over the past 24 hours, contacts (including names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses), call history and maybe
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My experience with installing Android on the HP Touchpad

Today after dinner, my dad called me over, saying he was having trouble with getting to his email on his tablet, an HP Touchpad. Evidently, Google has ended support for WebOS (I don't blame 'em, WebOS is a dead platform), so he could not access his email on the device. After a little while, I came up with a possible solution - flash Android 5.1.1 on it. With his full approval, I started working on flashing Android onto his aging tablet.   Finding a ROM wasn't that hard. People have been keepin
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I've had enough.

So I tried streaming Pokémon XD today. Instead, I got probably two legitimate viewers, both of whom were my friends, and then the rest were posting shit like a true story that 100% happened and dank maymays.   I'm sorry, but I'm not doing something for zero feedback. That just isn't worth it for me. If you want to say dank maymays like "ILL NOSKOP UR MOM IN BED SKRUB XDDDDDDDDDDDDD", go to Call of Duty. Not my stream. I have a zero tolerance for bullshit, especially after this week, which was
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How to: Create the Massachusetts Keyboahd™

1. Take your mechanical keyboard 2. Remove the R keycap with your keycap puller 3. Take your other mechanical keyboard 4. Remove the H keycap from that one 5. Place the H keycap in place of the R keycap 6. Optional step, but remap the R key to H in your keyboard's config software (if it allows that) Conghats, youh now typing like a Masshole! \m/
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Opera is dead, long live Vivaldi

I used to be a pretty big fan of the Opera browser. It never got much market share, but it was feature-rich, had a highly customizable interface, session management, and was developed in the direction the community wanted rather than what Opera Software ASA wanted, and the dev team at Opera was very willing to listen to this feedback. It was awesome. Then Opera 15 came out. It was missing a lot of features that made Opera Opera. No tab stacking, no private tabs, no built-in email or IRC client,
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Oh hey

There's a blogging thing on this site too! Now you guys get to hear all my ramblings about stuff! \m/
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