Montreal

Heading to Montreal for a week - should be interesting! Haven't been to Canada since early 1999 in the middle of winter for a bunch of Y2K prep. What does this have to do with technology? Absolutely nothing I'm just stoked enough about it to write about it on a blog that only two or three people even know exists ... Hi Mom! :P

I'll be sure to take tons of photos with my Xoom, too. Forgot to mention I have one of those and take it everywhere I go. Ditched my not-so-"Smart" phone when I got it too while passing through Raleigh. Guess I should publish some of my stuff about the Xoom ... maybe I'll do that from the train on my way.

Debian 6 [Squeeze]

Alrighty! Time for the completely open edition of Debian with some much needed software updates to stable. Most notable first impressions:

During installation you should have your non-free firmware files ready on a FAT formatted media. Lucky me I only had to worry about my Intel wireless support and I just installed the .deb file post-install and it came up just fine.

My Dell Precision M4300 boots incredibly fast now - under 1 minute!

Will be checking in semi-regularly with tidbits and installation notes for the Dell products that I use (Precision M4300, Precision T3400 & Precision 690 workstations).

UPDATES:

Seems Iceweasle has been brought up to par as well. After installing Sun's Java6-jre and Adobe's Flash10, no issues with the Juniper VPN connection and Flash. I was getting "Try again later" messages with Gnash. The Vmware console plugin is also playing nicely.