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2008 February

Moving to Kubuntu when version 8.04 ships

Recently I have been using the KDE4 desktop within Ubuntu and it has just blown me away with its ease of use and its eye candy. With its easy to use “start menu”, very nice widgets layer and all of the little effects that make it shine over the Gnome desktop that is present in [...]

Loco about Ubuntu?

Looking for a good place to learn more about Ubuntu or meet other Ubuntu users? Here are some websites that are dedicated to the use of Ubuntu.
-Loco about Ubuntu
-Ubuntu Forms
-Matt Hartley’s blog
-Official Ubuntu website
-Distro Watch
There are tons of other websites out there dedicated to Ubuntu and Linux in general, I am sure [...]

Vista tells me my version is counterfeit

 
Last August I bought myself an upgrade Hone Premium disk from Amazon to upgrade Windows XP Media Center to Vista. I have been using it off and on since then and just today I installed the newest updates for Vista and I received the image you see above. Im sorry but as a paying [...]

5 Things I Love About Ubuntu

Ubuntu has silently made its way to my desktop as the primary OS of choice. There are litterly hundreds of things that I adore about Ubuntu but heres the top five, in no order.

Customization, You can make Ubuntu look how ever you want! You can choose between different colors for the windows, change visual effects, [...]

I Have Been Featured In Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter!

One of my previous posts about the things I don’t like about Ubuntu made it all the way into the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is huge for me because this is my first time getting recognized for my blog. This is the kind of thing that makes me love blogging, along with the great comments [...]

Does Two Gigs Of RAM Really Help With Vista?

The answer to this is a simple YES! Today I received two sticks of 1 GB RAM for my laptop to replace the existing two sticks of 512 MB RAM and I can honestly say that my computer runs like it never has before. Obviously upgrading any part of your computer will help, but with [...]

I Finally Made Ubuntu Look Good!

As I have made mention before on a few occasions, I hate the default look of Ubuntu! After a few hours of research I have the theme used on a version of Ubuntu called Ubuntu Studio. Ubuntu Studio is basically Ubuntu with a new theme and some great multimedia and graphic programs that come preinstalled. [...]

5 Things I Don’t Like About Ubuntu 7.10

I have made the decision to move to Ubuntu away from the world of Windows, which I have been with for over 10 years. There are a lot of great things with Ubuntu Linux and a few things that well I don’t like. Here are the top 5 things I think should be fixed/changed in [...]

DreamScene + Screen Saver = BSOD

As I have mentioned before I decided to uninstall Windows Vista Home Premium after several issues. This was not the first time, in fact I have reinstalled Vista at least six times on my laptop.
A friend of mine heard of my troubles and gave me a free upgrade to Windows Vista Ultimate for my [...]

25 Things Microsoft Must Do To Save Vista

The first year for Vista was nothing short of a failure to be honest. Many people have downgraded their systems back to XP or have moved to Mac or Linux all together. Then there is the other side where people are loving Vista and have had no problems, and trust me I wish I was [...]

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