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Interview with Emma Jane Hogbin
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| Amber Graner: Today we talk to Emma Jane
| Hogbin, Technical Author, HiCKTech creator,
| Drupal Guru, Ubuntu Member and the list
| goes on. Before I want to say thank you for
| taking the time to tell us about your
| journey into the Ubuntu Project. Emma can
| you tell us a little about when and how you
| got involved in FOSS? Also, How and when
| did you get involved with the Ubuntu
| Project?
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| Emma Jane Hogbin: When I first graduated
| from university I chatted with various
| companies to find out what kind of work I
| wanted to do. (My degree is in
| Environmental Science, but I took a job as
| a project manager for a Web design company
| that specialized in web sites for
| environmental groups.) One of the companies
| that I met with had an entire shelf of
| Adobe software boxes. I made a comment
| about warez sites, and the owner of the
| company responded by saying that carpenters
| don't steal their hammers. My father is a
| wood worker, so this hit home in exactly
| the right way for me. From that point on I
| started looking into free and open source
| tools.
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http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1993
Roasted Laptop
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| Some time ago I bought a Dell Inspiron XPS
| Gen 2 laptop. At the time it was the
| fastest thing I could buy. It was also the
| heaviest! With a 17â 1920Ã1200 screen and
| all the toys, itâs a bit of a dead weight.
| It was always intended to be a desktop
| replacement, so it mostly sat on my desk
| all of its life so the weight wasnât an
| issue. Having nice big screen was lovely
| for desktop use and playing the odd game.
|
| [...]
|
| 30 minutes later the card was cool enough
| for me to put it back in the machine. I
| carefully put it all back together and
| booted it up. It worked! The video
| corruption had gone. Well, almost. I was
| left with one vertical purple line about 3
| pixels in from the left, which I can
| totally live with. In the drive was an old
| Crunchbang CD which booted up just fine.
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http://popey.com/blog/2010/03/08/roast-laptop/
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