New Laptop?
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First watch, 6 bells (11:12 pm)

I may be a bit early on this, but it looks like I've got pretty good chances on "inheriting" a new laptop at work. It's a monster, too—Intel Core2 2.33Ghz 4Gb RAM, a 512Mb nVidia Quadro FX 2500M graphics card, DVD burner, and a 160Gb hard drive. It's a sweet machine. Some of the RAM is inaccessible because of motherboard limitations, but I'm not complaining…

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Off To California
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Last dog watch, 2 bells (7:26 pm)

I'm off to San Francisco on Sunday for ZendCon for a week. I'll be back on Friday the 12th.

I can't imagine the hotel not having Internet access, so I'll probably be posting while I'm there, but things will be a bit different for the next week.

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Presidential Dollar
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Last dog watch, 1 bell (6:42 pm)

I got my first Presidential dollar coin today at the bank. It's John Adams. I thought it was another Sacajawea dollar, it was the same size and gold color. Anyway, I like the back design. I was looking for the date and mint mark, but couldn't find it until I noticed that it's minted on the outside edge of the coin now!

It's 2007 D if you were wondering.

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My Uploads are Faster Than Yours
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Afternoon watch, 6 bells (3:09 pm)

Can you do this??

FlyAround2.zip                                100%  348MB   1.1MB/s   05:16

Yes, that's uploading 348Mb in just over 5 minutes at 1.1 meg per second. Fiber rocks.

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Sweet Softwarey Goodness
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Afternoon watch, 2 bells (1:16 pm)

OpenSUSE 10.3 was released yesterday. Not many people sharing out the torrent yet, though.

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