OK all you Linux gurus, I’m in need of your help. After literally months of dicking around I’ve managed to cobble together an Internet kiosk for the scanners here at work that meets my boss’s requirements using Kubuntu. I’m actually quite proud of this accomplishment, but I’m having trouble with the last part. I want . . . → Read More: Looking for help on how to distrubute a Kubuntu build over a network.
I just lost an entry I was working on due to Firefox locking up so badly that I had to completely power off the laptop to get things back to normal. The reason it locked up? I accidentally managed to press CTRL-S and brought up the “Save Page As” file requester and when I clicked . . . → Read More: I don’t think I’ll be a Linux convert anytime soon.
If you’re a happy Ubuntu Linux fan then you’ll be pleased to hear that version 8.10 is now available to download or upgrade on your machine. The official press release can be read here and the folks at ArsTechnica.com have a brief writeup here:
Yes, I’m still struggling to make Ubuntu run properly on my work laptop. For awhile it seemed I had solved the crashing problem by installing, of all things, the BSOD screensaver. Of course that’s total nonsense, but for about four days I had no crashes to speak of and the only change I had made . . . → Read More: Ubuntu really, really hates me.
Here’s some more red meat for all you Linux fans to chew me up over. My Lenovo T60p laptop here at work continues to be annoyingly unstable and I can’t seem to figure out what the cause is. I’ve gone as far as to completely re-install Ubuntu adding in only the bare minimum of extra . . . → Read More: Ubuntu stability. I’m still not seeing it.
One of the first things I do when I get to work is check my email, personal and work related, which are both web based. After logging into my laptop I was dismayed to find that I wasn’t able to access the Internet. It seems Ubuntu has decided it doesn’t want to hold onto an . . . → Read More: Not happy with Ubuntu today.
Every time I write about computing on the Windows platform here, particularly when discussing problems, I can be assured that I’ll get at least a dozen comments/emails from folks encouraging me to switch to Linux because it’s the most secure and stable operating system in the universe. I’ve only dabbled in Linux previously, having used . . . → Read More: Linux doesn’t seem to live up to the stability hype.
This past weekend was a little on the busy side. We got up early to go looking at potential new places to live as we’re hoping to move out of the in-law’s place by the end of June after Courtney’s graduation and open house. Only made it to two places in Canton before a stop . . . → Read More: Weekend roundup and first big challenge at work.
I don’t know if I mentioned it or not, but one of the other things I picked up as a result of some PC side work lately is an old donated IBM Thinkpad 600E. Damn thing is ancient (Pentium II 366 Mhz), but I was able to bump the RAM in it up to 512MB . . . → Read More: I’ve been dicking around with Ubuntu.
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