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Now that I’ve had time to become familiar with Etch, the newest incarnation of Debian stable, I’m very impressed.   Etch, like Sarge before it, runs very nicely on older hardware and comes with all of the most popular software applications but there are some very significant differences worthy of mentioning or even, perhaps, celebrating.
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If I was setting up a new, or fairly new, computer with Linux I’d probably go with PCLinuxOS, Kubuntu or Ubuntu (they’re all really nice) and be happy as a lark but my first Linux computer was old and well used. Oh we had a newer machine but after I put PCLinuxOS on it my [...]

I’m not certain but I think I’ve been wrestling with SAM Linux for about two weeks now.   I can’t fault their support team, they kept plugging away until my video problem was solved but as soon as we solved the video problem other problems manifested.   I won’t go into it here but if [...]

SAM is the Xfce version of PCLinuxOS.   I’ve installed SAM in two 600 MHz, P3, Dell, GX115’s, each having 256 MB of RAM, over the last couple of days and been very impressed with it’s performance.   When you drop in a CD or plug in a USB drive the appropriate icon appears [...]

Our computers aren’t networked.   I did try to network them "once upon a time" but the resulting catastrophe isn’t something I care to discuss (nope, not going there).   Suffice to say that, once in a while we’ve needed to transfer data from one computer to another and this was complicated by the fact [...]

When my wife’s 800 MHz P3 Debian machine developed onboard video problems I couldn’t fix I bought a new motherboard for an 800 MHz Duron CPU I already had and just swapped out the board.   I assumed that switching from an Intel P3 to an AMD Duron would force me to reinstall Debian so [...]

The NTI CD Maker Gold software which came with the Sony DVDROM/CD-RW drive on my two year old Windows 2000 Pro "white box" ceased to function following a visit to MS Update when the system was only a few weeks old.   I was able to repair it by reinstalling the software but the problem [...]

Lisa and I both love to cook.   We season our cooking with incredibly fresh herbs and spices which we buy in one pound packages from San Francisco Herb Company and keep in the freezer until we need them.   Every morning we make one pot of Folgers Hazlenut flavored coffee and as the day [...]

I’m trying very hard to avoid becoming a rabid Linux advocate but it’s really not easy sometimes.   I have more than a few reasons to feel resentful towards the folks at Microsoft.   Two years ago, when I bought the Windows machine I’m using now I didn’t want XP and Win98SE was no [...]

We’ve been having fun with myspace.com this week.   The statistics on our new web host tells us the URL’s which link or refer to our website and a few days ago I noticed that there were some myspace URLs on the list.   I tracked them down and found that four myspace users were [...]