Ramblings of a Professional Computer Geek

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I retired from the US Air Force in 1996, after over 20 years on active duty. I have held many positions in my life, from pushing broom and pumping gas, to maintaining nuclear weapons, to writing software used by US forces around the globe. I have been married for over 35 years to the same wonderful woman. We have a son and a daughter, and they have given us five beautiful grandchildren.

My online nickname is “Padma”.  No, it is not necessarily a female name.    In my case, it comes indirectly from Padma Sambhava, an important 8th century Buddhist monk.  But I am no more a Tantric Buddhist than I am a female.  Padma is directly taken from the works of Gordon Dickson, where the character Padma the outbond is a wise,  seemingly ageless, man.  Read “Soldier, Ask Not“, “Brothers“, and/or “Lost Dorsai” for more insight.

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  1. I was using minime 2008 on my old computer. i now have a new acer with nvidia drivers.when i try to set up an online connection my minime doesnt recognize a connection therefore i cannot update the nvidia drivers. i tried to update on the old machine but because it had realtek drivers i got a message that no nvidia card was present.do you know of a way to add the needed drivers to a boot cd?have checked on the pclinux forums with no success. thank you.

    Comment by Frank — June 30, 2009 @ 1:17 pm | Reply


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