Ever since I’ve been using two monitors at work I’ve wanted to setup two monitors at home but finances are tight and I just can’t afford another flat screen. But this weekend I did dust off my daughters old 17″ … Continue reading
I know what I’m doing tonight! I’ve been a long time Gnome fan but KDE has always intrigued me. When I did my latest Ubuntu update I was going to switch but then I found out v4 was just around … Continue reading
My kid’s PC is REALLY old. I decided for Xmas I’d get them a new PC and ordered one of the $199 Wal-Mart Linux PCs. Tonight I started to tinker with it in preparation of sticking it under the tree. … Continue reading
I’m into application launchers. At work (on Windows) I use Find And Run Robot and have gotten really used to launching applications (and a lot of other neat functionality) with the keyboard. I’ve been missing the same thing on Gnome … Continue reading
Ubuntu 7.10 is available today. I’ve been running the betas for a few weeks now with just a few issues but I update frequently and things have been really smooth lately. If you haven’t tried Ubuntu yet give it a … Continue reading
Tonight I updated my Ubuntu install to the latest Gutsy beta (7.10). So far so good. This is the first upgrade I’ve done where it correctly set my widescreen monitor resolution so that was nice (no manually editing config files!). … Continue reading
Tonight I’m installing ColdFusion 8 at home. So far the install has gone very smoothly. Installed Apache 2 first and then ran the installer for CF8. One place I got stuck was during the CF install it asked me the … Continue reading
I was catching up on news and just noticed this tidbit – yesterday Google released the new Docs interface – and they also released Google Desktop – for Linux! The Google Desktop blog says: …it includes almost all the features … Continue reading