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I now have suspend working on my new T61. It was an easy fix after all, I had just not read thinkwiki close enough to find the answer. As you will see below “acpi_sleep=s3_bios” is for Intel graphics cards and “acpi_sleep=s3_mode” is for Nvidia cards. I have confirmed that “acpi_sleep=s3_bios” does not work on the [...]

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I got Valve’s Orange Box (Portal, Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2 and friends) running really easily using this tutorial. It’s pretty basic stuff, getting Sling Player to work was a bit tougher but it works for me. The only issue I have with the Orange Box so far is I have yet found a way [...]

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After a long wait in the line at the UPS store I was able to pickup my new laptop. After I took my girl to a nice dinner I spent the good portion of the rest of the night getting everything setup and rolling. The only real caveat so far is I am having trouble [...]

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Check out this wooden bike.

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I haven’t done a cycling related post in quite some time, so here it goes.
The racing season is just a month or so away and I couldn’t be less prepared. That’s the way it feels anyway. My winter training has been much, much different than in the past. The last two winters I haven’t done [...]

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