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. The hardware seems decent. The OS it ships with ‘gOS‘ is not [...]
Category Archives: Linux
Cheap PC Review - gOS
December 22, 2007 – 10:50 pm
Gnome Do - Quicksilver For Linux
December 5, 2007 – 11:08 pm
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 at home but tonight stumbled upon Gnome Do it’s still fairly immature but [...]
Ubuntu 7.10
October 18, 2007 – 8:44 am
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 shot! I’ve been using Ubuntu now for more than a year now and could [...]
Ubuntu Gutsy Upgrade
September 28, 2007 – 11:34 pm
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!).
I’ve also enabled the new flashy Compiz window effects but am not [...]
ColdFusion 8 Install On Ubuntu
September 7, 2007 – 7:47 pm
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 location for my Apache binaries. I had no idea and the examples the [...]
Google Desktop - For Linux
June 28, 2007 – 8:46 am
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 from the first Windows version of Google Desktop Search plus the Quick Search Box…
So [...]
When Sysadmins Ruled The Earth
June 25, 2007 – 5:39 pm
If you have ever done any system administration - go read this now. When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth by Cory Doctorow. Winner of the 2007 Locus Award for best novelette.
He opened a chat:
> Stop probing my server
He expected bluster, guilt, denial. He was surprised.
> Are you in the Front Street data-center?
> Yes
> [...]
Gates and Jobs
May 31, 2007 – 1:24 pm
Engadget has a nice overview of the recent interview with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
(This got over shadowed a bit by the ColdFusion 8 launch!)
There are some great moments in the interview - talking about transferring data around on cassette tapes, 128k or memory, the GUI vs. DOS interfaces., Lotus 1-2-3… [...]