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From '96 to '99 I spent a lot of time on IRC (DALnet) under the name SysRequest. I wrote a little remover utility to clean up the DMsetup.exe worm, which turned into a bit of a contest with its creator who tried to make his code more polymorphic.

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Ubuntu 8.04 on a Sony VAIO VGN-FE890

This is a follow-up to my Ubuntu post from a few days ago. I've tried out the final version of 8.04 LTS on my Sony VAIO laptop, and found that it didn't boot. Instead, after the Loading Kernel process bar reaches 100%, the only thing that appears on screen is:

[ 42.947514] ACPI: EC: […]

Posted: April 25th, 2008 under Software & Tools.
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