Spotted in my local Whole Foods coffee bar today: The coffee wasn’t half-bad, either! … Continue reading
Category Archives: Linux
Puppy Linux currently 165MB and Fatdog64 currently 225MB. I can’t tell if they support touch screens. Plug in, boot from USB, nothing goes on the HD. I’d say it would make it much harder to find out what you’ve been … Continue reading
So I rearranged my computers and hooked up my Win7 Ultrabook to the big screen in my office, and ran the sound system through my vintage Pioneer amp and the Mighty Stacked Advents – you don’t get computers that make … Continue reading
Would Microsoft really bring Office to Linux? | PCWorld Do you think Microsoft would bring Office to Linux? Please sound off in the comments. Permit me to ask the obvious question in response: Do you think Linux users, who tend … Continue reading
My latest brush with evil virus assholes (my Windows 7 install on my new Toshiba Ultrabook was badly infected after some asshole ran an exploit on my server) which cost me a lot of time and effort to clean up, … Continue reading
…then nothing will: Even more embarrassing than a student discovering your GPS tracking device on his car, as the FBI found out last year, is having to ask him to give the expensive piece of equipment back. So security researcher Brendan … Continue reading
I don’t know what I did to cause this – it started happening after the last upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10 – but I have no functionality in my notebook’s touchpad. I do right up until the time I log in, … Continue reading
I checked the logs. That was when I noticed that the “random” logouts weren’t so random. They seem to be occurring at 17 minutes past the hour, if I’m reading right. If you log right back in, the system logs … Continue reading
This is the worst upgrade yet. Intermittent crashes of just about everything (that wasn’t crashing before). Constant crashing of FF 7.0, whose crashes had tapered off to intermittent to occasional. A new wrinkle: Logs me off every once in a … Continue reading
Linux at 20: New challenges, new opportunities | Open Source Software – InfoWorld The rise of cloud computing and mobility could elevate the open source OS to a level of unprecedented dominance An interesting, if lengthy, analysis of the current … Continue reading
So, three days of living, livid, linux hell draws to a close. I now have a Linux laptop with a fully functional 100gb VirtualBox install of Vista Ultimate, Quicken 2009, Office 2007, and the latest Pretty Good Solitaire. I’m running … Continue reading
On top of the expensive irritation Jerry Moonbeam Browntongue has foisted on me with his latest approval of Democrat/Communist money grabs (and though it costs me significant change, bravo! to Jeff Bezos for telling Brown and his Merry Commie Bandits … Continue reading
Ubuntu for Android devices? How to Install Ubuntu on Android! If someone gives me another Android device I might try it. I don’t want to brick my only ereader. … Continue reading
So I spent all day hammering it, rewriting .php code (I don’t know dick about .php), messing around with cascading style sheets, talking to operators at online fax customer service shacks, and finally – finally! – finished the web site … Continue reading
I noticed yesterday that Ubuntu Synaptics package manager was offering an upgrade to Ubuntu 10.4, the Licking Larynx edition, so I clicked the button, continued with what I was doing, and a couple of hours later (download time for several … Continue reading
Three more years of The Fat Guy. I have a question though, Scott: I thought you were Linux friendly. What are all those gray squares that my Ubuntu Kosmic Kolonic can’t see? … Continue reading
I had updated my previous install of Ubuntu via the Synaptics package manager, but wasn’t happy with the update. So I finally gave in, downloaded the iso for Ubuntu 9.10, scraped the partition, and installed fresh. So far I’m pretty … Continue reading
I just upgraded the Lenovo to Ubuntu 9.4, Jazm Jizbo. It was a one click update, went with no problems, and everything seems to be working fine. I haven’t even looked at the list of new stuff. I suppose it’s … Continue reading
Hey, AC, you know what’s coming up, dontcha? That’s right, it’s time for Joking Jackoff, otherwise known as Ubuntu 9.04….
Internet Attacks Grow More Potent, reports John Markoff of the NY Times. In these attacks, computer networks are hijacked to form so-called botnets that spray random packets of data in huge streams over the Internet. The deluge of data is … Continue reading
Here’s a screengrab of my new Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex desktop with the official wallpaper. … Continue reading
For those of you who know more about Ubuntu Linux than I do (I assume that would be all of you who use Ubuntu…) One of the things I like the most about Ubuntu is the way it updates itself … Continue reading
I finished up at work today, powered off the laptop, stuck it in my bag, and came home (to my underwater mortgaged home – nASSHOLE? Fuck you.) stuck it to its power cord, and fired it up. Everything boots fine, … Continue reading
Earlier I mentioned that I had found a workable, native-linux substitute for the Quicken personal finance software I use called Moneydancer. Now that I’ve used it for a couple of days and figured out its various features, I am even … Continue reading
I finally bit the bullet and did what I should have done ages ago. I wiped my hard drive and installed the new Ubuntu 8.10 beta clean. So far, so good. Everything more or less “just works.” I’m having quite … Continue reading
If you have a working install of Windows XP on your machine, even if it is not booted, and you are booted into Linux instead, can anybody think of any possible way Windows could communicate with the mothership, or anything … Continue reading
So I fixed both my problems with network manager and bluetooth, which are now functioning properly, and I solved a new problem with Innotek Virtual Box (somehow damaged, wouldn’t boot) by downloading and (re)installing the latest version. Since my Windows … Continue reading
Everything seems okay, except for two “minor” problems that I didn’t have before. Ubuntu 8.10’s network manager “forgets” my wireless WEP key after every logout, and demands it be entered manually upon login. It shows correctly in my passwords utility, … Continue reading
The new Firefox 3.0 (beta, but solid) is really cool running on Linux? … Continue reading
I’m upgrading my Ubuntu install to Hardy Heron, otherwise known as Ubuntu 8.04. I’m doing an upgrade rather than a clean install because it took me forever to get the 7.10 working with my machine to my satisfaction, and I’d … Continue reading
Vista fiasco continues with retreat to XP | Storage Bits | ZDNet.com Fall back! Fall back! Microsoft’s announcement yesterday of the “Extended Availability of Windows XP Home for ULCPCs†is more evidence that the Windows Vista fiasco is still growing. … Continue reading
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler » If it ain’t broke — upgrade… Over at Misha’s place, Deej is heading into the hospital, so stop by and wish him well. Also take a look at the latest shaft Mickey is planning to deliver to … Continue reading
Folks, I am sitting in a very nice little SF corner coffee house (not Starbux – they serve Kona as their house blend), and I am speaking to you via the wonders of Linux Ubuntu 7.1 Gutsy Gaboon, and Verizon … Continue reading
Okay, I come to the end of my long journey to Linux land. Only two rivers remain to cross. I still haven’t figured out how to get the sound working on my Lenovo X61 under Ubuntu 7.1 (important – solutions … Continue reading
I’m sorry to report that I have returned to using Windows as my primary operating system. The inability to use RoboForm, Quicken, and Goodsol just got to be too much of an irritant. Further, the odd behavior of Linux – … Continue reading
I’d sorta been missing Microsoft’s Outlook program, because I’ve been using it for years, and I liked having mail, calender, notes, tasks, contacts, and everything in one place. I’ve been using Thunderbird for mail and contacts (the built-in Bayesian filters … Continue reading