Linux: Baby Steps
Due to overwhelming demand (four votes in the last poll), I'm going to lay out exactly how to download, burn to CD, and test the most popular Linux distro, Ubuntu. This will net you the...
View ArticleLinux: Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
Well, after nearly two weeks using SabayonLinux, I finally broke down and installed Ubuntu 7.04, aka Feisty Fawn. Somehow having that liveCD around just wasn't a good idea. I had played around...
View ArticleLinux: Synaptic, Tips And Tricks
In the previous installment, I tried to document the install process of Ubuntu's latest release, Feisty Fawn (7.04). In this diary I'd like to discuss the very nice Synaptic package manager,...
View ArticleUbuntu: Tweaking And Troubleshooting
Linux has come a long way in recent months, in ease of installation and configuration, connecting wirelessly, and painlessly installing proprietary codecs and drivers. That being said, there...
View Article[Updated] The beginning of the end for Windows monopoly = end of the...
Before you all go and offer up a collective groan - 'Oh no! Not another Ubuntu diarist!" I'm not going to make a habit of it...:) And I'm not about to steal any of fareast's thunder... In fact I'm not...
View ArticleElectronic Darwinism: Week In Review
Yes, to try to establish a blogging schedule and to practice for a weekly series, here is my Electronic Darwinism Week in Review. Stories that, while they may not be major or earth-shaking or even make...
View ArticleOpen Source: Don't Dis The Gibbon!
Don't ever Dis The Gibbon! After a long wait, Ubuntu (Kubuntu) Gutsy Gibbon has made it into beta. It looks like a dual boot will be in order: Mandriva for Work, and Ubuntu for play; KDE on...
View ArticleReplacing Windows with Linux
This diary isn't merely a statement against candidate diaries. There are a number of legitimate reasons to discuss the use of Open Source software in a political community like dKos. Open Source...
View ArticleMy new favorite alternative OS : gOS
In November 2007, Everex Computers began selling an eco-friendly computer called the gPC. Using a low-powered VIA CPU and consuming only 2 watts of power, it sold out within one day on walmart.com with...
View ArticleTech Tuesday - Linux on old Laptops
Since I decided to buy a new computer, I spent the evening working on my other two notebooks. Arod, my Acer C310, is going to my son, and Stybba, my Acer C101, will be a free agent when Firefoot, the...
View ArticleTech Tuesday - ScribeFire Revisited
I go back-and-forth on the whole "browser-based" thing. When I was working in Windows, I was a happy camper in terms of blogging. I used the Semagic client to post to LiveJournal and a freeware program...
View ArticleTop Comments 05/28/2008--Open Source Edition
So I'm sure you've heard the word Linux floating around at some point. Maybe you've heard that it's another operating system like Mac or Windows, but you never really bothered to learn more. Perhaps...
View ArticleUbuntu
I learned a new word this week, and it comes by way of the Boston Celtics. Doc Rivers introduced this word to his team as a way of uniting them in a common cause: to win a championship. So far it...
View ArticleSimunye
I am sitting in my house, watching CNN World Report. The programme is about whom the rest of the world wants as President of the United States. They have interviewed a diverse group of people from many...
View ArticleYour obligatory UBUNTU release heads-up
UBUNTU has, in the last few years, developed into the most popular of Linux-based computer operating systems. But it has been a long(ish) journey to this point...
View ArticleUBUNTU 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope: update with vid
Ok, not long ago I posted a heads-up about the upcoming release of UBUNTU 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. I am not going to apologize for being an advocate of open-source software. Free knowledge is the glue...
View ArticleACTION: Ubuntu / Linux Gurus Needed - Iran Proxies
H/T to Omir the Storyteller for this idea, I think it's a great one. Now I need your help. The idea that Omir had was to roll a custom Linux Live CD that does one thing; creates a proxy that Iranians...
View ArticleThe Most Beautiful Thing I've Read In Weeks
What galvanized many Kossacks about Obama, I would guess, was his rhetoric. For example, when he decided to speak about the false controversy over Reverend Wright, he took the opportunity to discuss...
View ArticleArchbishop Desmond Tutu: No Person is an Island
Last night I had the great pleasure and privilege of seeing South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his daughter, The Rev. Mpho Tutu, talking about their new book, Made for Goodness: And Why This...
View ArticleLinux: Why I Am Almost Unique on DKos
On April 1, there was a posting on the center page about usage statistics. It described the percentage of users on each browser and percentages of users on Macs and each variant of Windows. All...
View ArticleGoogle: ¡hasta luego, Windoze (updated with a snip of the article)
It seems as though I hear the clucking of chickens on the horizon, wending their way home to M$. In our increasingly inter-tubed existence most of the on-line population has been held hostage to...
View Article[Update at bottom] - It's time to dump Windows... really, it is.
Bill Gates and Microsoft have dominated the computer operating system almost from the outset of personal computing with the 'Windows OS' brand. (henceforth WOS) It is a situation which causes danger to...
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