Category Archives: linuxI want to be clear: I’m talking about regular DVDs, not Blueray or HD. I’m also not talking about making copies for my friends, or other people on the Internet. I’m talking about making a copy for backup purposes.
One simple reason I want to do this: the kids aren’t exactly “gentle” with the DVDs. For […]
Last week at Evening With S60, I did get to see a Nokia N810 very briefly. Major differences between my N800 and this device:
Slide-out keyboard (N800 has no keyboard)
Camera isn’t on a pop-out cylinder, but on the outside
Built-in GPS
2gb of internal storage (versus an SD slot)
Different battery, but same capacity
It is quite the device. I […]
The folks at Creative Weblogging–the people behind Gadgets Weblog, VoIP Weblog, and a slew of others, were serving up a “compromised” creative–a ad with malicious intent. In short, what it was doing was redirecting people to a site that, if you were running Internet Explorer and had scripting turned on, would install malware on your […]
While my MacBook is being sent off to Apple yet again, I have to get work done. After spending a lot of time using my PowerPC-based Mac Mini, I decided I’d go back to a system that worked really well: my Linux/Mac/Windows combo with Synergy. And you know what, it works well!
The term “iri-computing” is […]
What’s on the screen of this laptop should give you a hint as to why I might need so many laptops. Or not.
The fact of the matter is, I’m on the hook this week to present at this week’s WSTPA meeting regarding Ubuntu Linux. Because I don’t think PowerPoint presentations are all that useful, I’m […]
When my son had a Nintendo DS–he lost it someplace he shouldn’t have had it in the first place–he kept bugging me about how he couldn’t get on the WiFi (or as he calls it Wee-fee). That’s because I’m a paranoid SOB and only run WPA on my access points. The DS doesn’t support WPA, […]
I did it: I installed Freespire. Not on a real machine, but in VMware. Unlike certain OSes by Microsoft unless you pay a small fortune for it, Linux-type OSes don’t care if you install them in a virtual machine. I also did the same thing with the latest released Ubuntu release (7.04, a.k.a. Feisty Fawn) […]
In the next few weeks, I am supposed to give a presentation to WSTPA about Ubuntu Linux. I’m not going to do death by PowerPoint, but rather demonstrate that, in fact, many of the common tasks you do on a Microsoft Windows OS can be done in Linux.
After reading Michael Robertson’s latest blog entry, I […]
You know, I hadn’t really thought of the two devices as comparable until Om Malik mentioned it. The two posts he did (here and here) generated a fairly active thread related to this. Here’s my take.
I have not seen the iPhone up close and personal, though like every gadget geek, I read the reviews. I […]
This ZDNet Blogs article discusses some of the reasons why Linux hasn’t garnered a larger market share on the desktop, which of course Paul Thurrott, one of the most well-known Windows fanboys, had to chime in on. When I see these articles, no matter which viewpoint they are written for, they all seem extol the […]
As you can tell by the crappy video I posted yesterday, yes I know I need a tripod, I got a Nokia N800 yesterday. I’ve been trying my best not to let it monopolize my day because it’s a freaking cool gadget.
What have I done with it so far?
Using the web browser, of course. It […]
There seems to be a misconception out there that just because you run Network Time Protocol (NTP) on your network that you don’t need to patch your computers for the Daylight Saving Time nonsense that’s befallen North America. Fact is: even with NTP, you need those DST patches.
Time on an NTP server is communicated in […]
One of the machines I have set up is a headless Linux box running VNC. I use it as a file server, mostly. I also use it while I am away to Bittorent stuff using my own connection. I can then make it available via an SSL VPN box I have.
Anyway, I have grown considerably […]
One of my favorite distributions of Linux is called Damn Small Linux. The reason I like it is because it is small, fast, and runs on really old hardware fairly nicely. The entire distribution fits on a 50 megabyte CD, i.e. one of those “business card” CDs. This is not designed to be as slick […]
This announcement is likely to get lost in the hoopla, given the Stevenote announced so many cool things today. However, this itself is fairly cool–the release of Crossover Office Linux 6.0 and Crossover Mac 6.0. Unlike, say, VMWare or Parallels, Crossover runs Windows applications natively without needing a copy of Windows. This is accomplished by […]
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