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TL;DR – Jump to the bottom to find the solution I installed Sway, my favorite Wayland compositor, on Debian Trixie several weeks ago. There were bumps along the way, as Wayland does things very differently than the X display server tha I'm used to… but overall I have been pleased with the results. That said, there has been one issue that had been a thorn in my side: my media keys did not work.
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Backups are important. Money is important. I don't want backups to take up all my money, and I have several terabytes to back up. So, what's a girl to do?
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In a previous post, I mentioned that I was receiving a bizarre error message: "Unable to create temporary work files". It turns out that it may not have been as bizarre as I had once thought.
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As of today, I'll be booting into Ubuntu at work instead of the usual Windows XP. I am psyched.
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Recently, tioduke inquired about how my Arch adventure was going, so get ready for a follow-up post!
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For all of us stuck in a Windows Server environment, hopefully this will help a bit.
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This week, one of my co-workers began working on a ticket that I had started. The situation involved an ASP.NET script, a stored procedure, and CSV and Database data sources. It was a fairly complicated issue that involved a 3rd party - they supplied the CSV file. It turns out that they had changed the formatting of the CSV file, which botched up our import script quite thoroughly.
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Note: This post is out of date. To see the stunning conclusion, read the update!
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This has been driving me crazy for YEARS! Adobe Acrobat's Distiller feature constantly crashes, no matter what I'm using it for. But now, I have a solution.
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