I was upgrading Kubuntu today, when it told me something went wrong and so I stopped it. Then, when I went back to restart Adept Manager, I got the message: Another process using packaging system database I started looking around my running processes and attempting to kill whatever I thought might be causing the problem, but it wasn’t working. So, I followed my mantra: “When all else fails, reboot!” and did what no Linux...
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Google thinks I'm Tony
Today I got a promotional email from Google, because I’m an Analytics user, to try to convince me I need AdWords and even gave me a $20 special offer. The strange thing is, they called me Tony. So my question is, did they call everyone Tony? Did Tony get mine? Or is the array number one off and everyone is getting the wrong name in their...
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I’m at Adobe MAX this week. I’m currently sitting in the sneak peek session and blogging it with my phone (so forgive any typos or misunderstandings). Out of over 600 entries, the MAX award’s people’s choice was given to eBay Desktop. Now for the sneaks: Adobe Visual Communicator is new to Adobe. We all got a copy when we got here but had no idea what it was until the session explained that its pretty much a way to...
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