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SAAB – An End to the Road or Just a Turn in the Road?

Beren Erchamion
February 20, 2009

Normally I keep my blog fairly targeted at technology or beer, but I’ve also posted on my love of SAAB cars and my Turbo-X. Obviously all the news about the demise of GM and the abandonment of their foreign brands…

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Practical Tips for Working with Oracle 11g

Beren Erchamion
February 8, 2009

We all know this happens. No matter how hard we try at some point we have to work with a product that we don’t really like, but a customer or employer does. Usually it is not worth quitting over (unless…

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Setting up a Complete JBoss Stack on Fedora 10

Beren Erchamion
December 28, 2008

I do most of my development work on Windows XP, but now that I have a decent laptop running Fedora 10 I thought I would see how it is doing something useful with the machine. I recently setup a complete…

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News

2008’s Top Reads

Beren Erchamion
December 25, 2008

Hey thanks for reading my posts. It’s fun writing things – it helps me learn things faster and if I can help get the word out about something new and innovative then that’s good too. Here’s a list of the…

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A Penguin Deathmatch? Fedora 10 vs. Ubuntu 8.10

Beren Erchamion
December 23, 2008

After several weeks of trying I finally had to give in to my sweaty and now pruney hands. I could not get the heat out of my Ubuntu install on my T60p laptop. I tried everything…CPU monitors, tuning down the…

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Technical Review

Spending a Day with Ubuntu

Beren Erchamion
December 11, 2008

I recently got a chance to spend an entire working day with Ubuntu at my employer. This is sad, but I grabbed the wrong laptop on the way into work and when I emerged from standby lo and behold I…

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