Linux

I’ve decided to give it a go again with Linux. Installed an extra hard drive on my computer and have installed Ubuntu’s Hardy Heron. So far it seems to be working ok. One thing that is irritating is that Firefox 3 Beta is loaded so I can’t use my Foxmarks add on so I don’t [...]

Well, another year down and hopefully many more to go. Sometimes I wonder where all the time went, then others it seems like it has lasted forever. My wife and I celebrated our 18th wedding anniversary, our son turned 16, my grandfather died and we had a house full for Christmas. That’s life, the ups [...]

Well I’ve decided I’ll give Linux a go again. I hate giving up on things and that is how I feel about my experience with Linux. Now that I have a computer with a little more horsepower and an extra hard drive I’ll give the dual boot option a try. That way I can keep [...]

Well, my little experiment with Linux is over for now and I am back to XP for my main OS. I’ve given it a go but it never worked quite right for me. I spent more time trying to get things to work the way I wanted versus actually being productive. I know from reading [...]

Today’s rant is about Linux.  My machine is up and running but networking it with my other computers is an absolute nightmare i.e. it just isn’t happening. I have spent hours on various Linux forums, tried various Linux distros, used countless configurations and you know what: it still isn’t working. I’ve said this before and [...]

Change! That is the name of the game. Picked up a “new” computer cheap the other day. It’s a P4 1.4 Ghz with 1 Gb of RAM. It had a pirated copy of XP Professional on it so I formatted the drive. Then I thought I’d give Ubuntu another try. Well I loaded it up [...]

So how is it going so far? Well quite honestly I haven’t been playing around with Linux too much. I’m using my computer to do some stuff but no experimenting with software or anything like that. But I can do what I need to do at the moment so no complaints. :-)
My one rant though [...]

More Linux rants…it’s working so far. I can do most of what I want to do. Web surfing is fine with Firefox; haven’t run into any problems so far. I’m running Amarok as my media player and it also runs pretty well. Ktorrent is a decent bittorent application though it seems slower than Utorrent [...]

The saga continues with Linux…
I decided to give up on Ubuntu. Too many crashes and my system kept bogging down. A guy I know at work (who I discovered is a Linux geek) suggested PCLinuxOS. I downloaded the live CD and installed the OS on my computer. Here are my first impressions:
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My continuing adventures with Linux….not too happy with it right now. Oh it works but between the crashes, freeze ups and the refusal to network with my XP desktop and laptop I’m quite frustrated. The XP desktop and laptop can see the Linux box and I can move files to it but the Linux box [...]

Linux! I have an older PC that I picked up recently real cheap. It’s an older Compaq 700 series with an 800Mhz AMD processor and 128 Mb of ram. I decided to give Ubuntu a try since I didn’t want to run Windows 98. It’s been about 2 weeks now and though I’m definitely not [...]