My wife got given an old laptop from her work. It was going to be thrown out but they gave it her on the condition that we made sure there was no confidential company information left on the hard disk and, if there was, made sure it was erased. The computer, a Dell 3800 Inspiron [...]
Linux
May 062009
I have been so busy for just about every weekend since going to the Newcastle Maker Faire, that when this weekend came around I thought “Computer time!” After seeing that there was a new PCLinuxOS available I started checking to see if there was an update for the EeePC version for my EeePC 701. Sadly [...]
So there are a number of posts about guys testing their partners to do typical functions in Linux that they would normally do in Windows.A couple of days ago my wife announced that she wanted to have a particular fancy font for one of her craft projects.When she used to boot to Windows, her computer [...]
Jan 072009
Installing a new release of Linux about every 6 months gives me a good excuse to back everything up, which is not a bad thing. However I hate all the tweaking that is then needed to get everything back to **just right**. So it was a pleasant surprise when I installed Mint 6 Felicia this [...]
Nov 032008
So I have Mandriva 2008.1 on my computer. So far there are only a couple of annoyances. 1) Logging inWhen I installed Mandriva I added a password. No problem.Rebooted the computer. At the end of my session I had my password memorized and turned off the computer.A couple of days later I turned on the [...]
A few months ago I went and purchased a hard drive for around $60. My wife had been bugging me to install Linux on her computer. I, like an idiot, went out and purchased a second hard drive for her. I say ‘like an idiot’ because I was lazy and did not check to see [...]
Sep 052008
According to the recent Mac vs PC spoof commercial, Microsoft has come out with a line of relaxing teas to deal with the frustrations of using Vista. Well, I surely could have used some Linux Mint Mint today. while configuring network access to other computers and my printer via CUPS.I’ve been spending a lot of [...]
Aug 242008
Linux Mint installed everywhere…..So I posted a few weeks ago that I was going to keep Linux Mint, after trying it for a year. Shortly thereafter I talked my wife into my needing two monitors. Reluctantly she agreed so I popped down the road and bought myself a ATI HD 3450 video card, plugged it [...]
Aug 012008
About a year ago I did a cage match between Linux Mint and PCLOS.A year later I am about to clean off the Linux hard drive and what am I going to install? PCLOS or Linux Mint. During the year I updated workshop computer with PCLOS08 and have to say it looks nice but I [...]
I have not posted for a while this is not because I had anything to post just no time to do it. Easter came and went and I have actually gone into a little Gort overload. So I thought I should do something else… I have been switching Linux over the last weeks and had [...]
