Posted by samzenpus (70% noise) View Skip Lorin Ricker writes “Back in the dark ages of windows-based GUIs, corresponding to my own wandering VMS evangelical days, I became enamored of a series of books jauntily entitled Xxx Annoyances (from O’Reilly & Assocs.), where “Xxx̶...

A perfectly good Emachines computer, model H2865. It comes with a Sony Vaio Triniton monitor, an Emachines keyboard, and a mouse, all in great condition. The computer itself comes with the following hardware: Proccessor: x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 7 Genuine Intel 2.66 GHz Total Physical Memory: ...

This year, I'd really like to swap over to using OpenSolaris as my default desktop at home if possible, but there are several things that are just not there yet, and are therefore preventing me from doing so. The first one is being able to listen to my favorite Internet radio station. If I click on ...

Ich habe mir vorgenommen, ein bisschen mehr über die Dinge zu schreiben, die mich täglich oder zumindest wochentäglich beschäftigen. Daher gibts jetzt hier auch ne Nerd Corner, in der ich über IT relevante Themen berichte, weil das halt die Themen sind, die mich sowohl beruf...

Change to Ubuntu Set up virtual machine for my Windows partition Use Emacs to handle my mail? Hard to do calendar acceptance Set up regular backups Resize Windows partition Clean up my Firefox extensions Clean my keyboard Set up personal or team bugtracker - not needed, projects have ClearQuest Set ...

Posted by Soulskill (54% noise) View Skip TRNick writes “What’s the state of free software, 25 years after GNU’s birth? TechRadar has an interview with Richard Stallman to find out. Stallman thinks free software is making good progress: ‘Nowadays hardware developers are also ...

  This is one of my normal Windows sucks posts.  I do them from time to time.  I switched over to Ubuntu (Linux) to write this post.  I have IE 8.0 beta installed on Windows and it has started to act strange now.  Of course I been getting those standard messages when I go to some sites saying I...

Yes, I got my Blu-ray drive. Recompiled Mplayer - twice! The first time didn’t work for some reason. I’m thinking of compiling it again but this time with Pulseaudio support, because I forgot to install the development libraries for PA before compiling. It works; I can only use “mp...

After reading a review of Xubuntu with an eye towards older hardware, I was prompted to think about why I use it. The initial reason I looked at Xubuntu was precisely because it was a lighter distribution, written for older hardware.  This is the reason the aforementioned fellow re-tried out Xubunt...

Hi all! I have been trying to set up a USB drive (4gb) to boot linux on one of those DELL Mini computers. I tried pendrivelinux and SLAX. The Computer is my wife's. EVERYTHING SEEMS TO INSTALL EXCEPT THE WIRELESS CARD. My wife liked the SLAX interface ... is there a USB linux that will work? I am cu...