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Monthly Archives: December 2010

PXE booting OpenBSD on an ALIX via Ubuntu Live CD

December 31, 2010 – 9:38 pm

Update: I’ve expanded the contents of this post into a full guide to running an OpenBSD router on an ALIX board. This is a quick guide to booting the OpenBSD installer on a PC Engines ALIX board with tinyBIOS (such … Continue reading »

Advanced Kindle store search

December 29, 2010 – 11:31 pm

I just found a great web site providing a better Kindle content search than what’s baked into Amazon: eReaderIQ.com. You can search by price, publication date, reading level, and whether the book you want is in the public domain, among … Continue reading »

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Microsoft Outlook ruins my evening

December 9, 2010 – 9:44 pm

I had a funny experience yesterday. I don’t typically use Microsoft Outlook with my home email account. But it was bundled with the copy of Office 2010 that I installed a few months ago, and I figured: heck, if I … Continue reading »

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