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[tags]Home recording, Linux, 64Studio[/tags]
For months I’ve been accumulating the parts for a PC based home recording studio.   Before I started I posted questions to my LUG and did hours of research on google.   It’s a one GHz Athlon system with a GB of RAM, a 4.3 GB hard drive for the Operating System, [...]

[tags]Linux, Older Hardware, Xubuntu, Debian Sarge[/tags]
One of the things I like most about Linux is it’s ability to surprise me.   A few months back I tried Xubuntu 6.06 on a 500 MHz Celeron system and just couldn’t get it to run.   Recently a friend gave me some old motherboards and one of them [...]

[tags]eBay, Selling, Tutorial[/tags]

When one of our friends asked us about selling things on eBay my wife quipped "If you’d rather see it go away than throw it away you won’t be disappointed" and I’ve been repeating that to people ever since.   While it’s true that you can make money selling things on eBay it’s [...]

[tags]eBay, Buying, Tutorial[/tags]
The eBay experience has become something of a rite of passage for newcomers to the web. Sadly, it isn’t always a positive experience, but the judicious application of information, i.e. knowledge, can circumvent some of the more obvious pitfalls.
The best way to get started on eBay is as a buyer and here [...]