On Tuesday morning I posted information on this blog which was inaccurate. I wrote that Bethel had opted not to sign the EC Fiber Network’s inter-local agreement, and indicated that 20+ other towns had. This was not true on Tuesday, and as of today, still is not. As of Tuesday evening, only 12 towns out of 25 had signed the agreement due to questions. Continue reading “Clarification/Retraction on Bethel's Stance on ECFiber.net”
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Virtualizing Windows XP Professional for Fun and Profit
Today I decided to finish virtualizing my copy of XP, so that I could run all of my XP apps (except my beloved World of Warcraft) under XP, while actually using Ubuntu as my native OS. This eliminates the hassle of having to maintain multiple copies of Windows, freeing up disk space, and improving performance.
But that performance comes with a price… Continue reading “Virtualizing Windows XP Professional for Fun and Profit”
Man Page Minute – chmod
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chmod – change file access permissions Continue reading “Man Page Minute – chmod”
Man Page Minute – touch
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touch – change file timestamps Continue reading “Man Page Minute – touch”
Man Page Minute – mkdir
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mkdir – make directories Continue reading “Man Page Minute – mkdir”
Actual Error Message, as Seen on YouTube
So, I was trying to watch this video on YouTube, when this happened. Continue reading “Actual Error Message, as Seen on YouTube”
Man Page Minute – rmdir
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rmdir – remove empty directories Continue reading “Man Page Minute – rmdir”
Man Page Minute – rm
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rm – remove files or directories
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Fiber Coming to East Central Vermont
From today’s Bethel, Vermont Town Meeting Warning:
Article 23. Be it resolved, shall the Town of Bethel enter into an Interlocal Contract with other municipalities, under Title 24 of the Vermont Statues Annotated Section 4901, for the purpose of establishing a universal, open-access, financially self-sustaining broadband communications system to provide communications services, including high-speed internet, telephone and cable television, to the residents, businesses and institutions of these towns?
And the Select Board said that they doubted they could get the warning on the ballot.