Yelling at the Yakkety Yak (but it won’t talk back)

Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) was released almost two months ago, but I only just realized I hadn’t upgraded yet (this happened to me during the last .10 release as well). This upgrade was a little smoother than last time, but not without its hiccups. The upgrade process uses screen to keep everything running separately in a separate …

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Waking the Wily Werewolf

I’m not sure how I let late October pass by without upgrading my Linux server! Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) was released back on October 22 and somehow (still not sure how) I completely missed it. So today I did the first ‘do-release-upgrade’ on the NUC (since I clean installed Vivid back in July). This one was pretty smooth, …

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Intel NUCs

Since getting my standing desk at home last last year I’ve been thinking about getting a new, smaller PC that would fit on top of my desk instead of under it (like my old Dell Inspiron from 2008), eliminating cable clutter.  With the upcoming release of Windows 10 I had been thinking more about this and also replacing …

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