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Slight Delay in Review
I regret to inform you, that the second part of the review of the Kubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” beta release will be delayed until Monday. I had a great deal of work today, and I will away tomorrow. I started writing up the review. But I need some more time to thoroughly look at the…
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Initial Impressions of Kubuntu 7.10 Gutsy [BETA]
Yesterday, I updated my main desktop system to Kubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon. This release adds a number of exciting and useful features to Kubuntu. While not a revolutionary feature set, this new release promises to evolve Linux as a desktop OS. So, for the next few days I plan on experimenting and reviewing this new…
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The Madness Caused by Hot Weather
Its true. Hot weather can make things to awry. The laptop that hoped to finish today, needed a reinstall due to a bad partition scheme. I ran out of room for /. And had too much for /home. Sigh. Now the wireless card seems to… not wanting to work. Its irritating. Just as irritating as…
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Laptop Ubuntued and the Quest for Desktop Searching
After my lengthy post on the issues of installing Ubuntu on my Toshiba Satellite 2410 laptop, I am pleased with the results. I managed to fix the suspend issue that plagued me with this post. So I am almost ready to “give back” the laptop to my brother. After hearing yesterday about the Google XXS…
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The Penguin and the Rusty Wrench
Day 2 of installing Ubuntu Linux 7.04 on my brother’s Toshiba Satellite 2410 laptop. I have done this before, but boy is this irritating. I mistakingly took the wrong approach of installing all the applications that he would need/want before doing a thorough hardware check. So after I ran into the infamous “poltergeist” problem of…
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Penguin Redux
This week swept by at a crazy pace. Did not get much headway in my long term project, because I had to deal with too many urgent issues. Hopefully thats over. Before I left for Europe, I wanted to install Linux on my brother’s laptop (Toshiba Satellite 2410). But I ran out of time then.…
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Dell and Ubuntu! w00t!
I know this like old news by the time I post this. But dude, you can get Ubuntu from Dell! While Dell only officially supports three models right now, I can say that Ubuntu runs just great on my Dell Dimension 9150. Anyways, enough about my stuff. Everyone who likes Linux and especially Ubuntu, you…
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Attack of the Lettuce Monster, and the Return of Work
After disappearing for a few months, I went back to the justCheckers website again. Much to my horror I discovered a group of spammers decided to “borrow” my forums. Now I have to engage in anti-spamming. The forums are cleaned of NSFW content, and I began the process of deleting and banning users. Joy. I…
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My First (Ubuntu) Linux Convert
On Monday, I converted my friend Robert into a Linux fan.Without getting into details, Robert needed to access the Internet and Windows XP just would not cut it. So he proposed, that I should install Ubuntu Linux on his desktop. I agreed to help him out, since I had considerable installing and configuring different Linux…
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Defcon Linux Beta Released
Introversion, the UK indie game developer of Darwinia and Uplink, just released the public beta of the Linux port of their global thermonuclear warfare sim, Defcon. The names come straight from Introversion’s forums here. You can get the demo from links in this post. I tried the demo on my Ubuntu 6.10 desktop. Runs without…