I was installing WordPress on a domain yesterday and downloaded the WordPress recommended Widgets Theme Pack. I then unpacked the Widgets Theme Pack in the ‘themes’ directory, pick a theme, and off I went to do other things. Not so fast, after leaving the blog alone for about an hour I noticed […]
I’m having a helluva time getting ImageMagick operating on one of my servers. I need an ImageMagick guru to get it working. Name your price.
Tags: imagemagick
The wise Ben Hayes has fired up an online petition to influence Apple to make a Linux version of iTunes.
Sign the petition when you get a chance. Porting iTunes to Linux will only help bolster Linux on the desktop.
Tags: linux, itunes
Not too long ago I mentioned all the problems I have been having with the latest incarnation of the (once great) web browser, Firefox. I have figured out that the issues aren’t plugins, add-ons, or themes but very poor memory management, in a nutshell, bad programming. I have tweaked and fiddled with Firefox all I […]
Most of us probably knew this already but Internet Explorer (IE) is one of the most unsecured browsers on the planet. Last year alone, it was unsecure for 284 according to a Washington Post article by Brian Krebs.
Internet Explorer Unsafe for 284 Days in 2006 (Washington Post):
Security Fix spent the past several weeks compiling […]
I’m not sure how diverse this tool is but it’s fairly nifty in my book; the Linux Distribution Chooser. It feeds you so simple questions and gives you some suggestions. I’m going to nab a few live CDs and see if they meet my requirements in a Linux distribution.
UPDATE 19 Jan 2007: Matt […]
I upgraded to Firefox 2 the day it came out and I’m almost wishing I didn’t. Of course, the alternative (Internet Explorer 7) has to be the worst browser ever made (at least as far as the GUI goes). I’ve used Opera and for whatever reason can’t stand it so here I am […]
I decided to sit back and try and figure out how Conservative Thinking and the server it resides on could possibly help out bloggers and the information technology (IT) community.
The first step in this process was to setup a mirror for The Linux Documentation Project (LDP). LDP is a loosely knit team of volunteers […]
I’ve been migrating a ton of content from the now deprecated information technology section of the Short Family Web Site to chrisshort.net this week.
None of it is “new” content but to the blogosphere I guess it is. I guess some people have been taking notice too. I was getting a lot of traffic […]
Originally Written 10 Jun 2003
When I got the idea to write this article I decided to do some searching and see what other people were saying about ease of use in Linux. I found the results of my searches to be less than fruitful, see for your self:
http://www.alltheweb.com/search?q=linux+ease+of+use
http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+ease+of+use
What came up were a few useful writings […]
