My first major foray into Gnu/Linux was with the Gentoo flavor. Some of my friends used Debian, but the whole idea of Gentoo just appealed more to me. Once I knew a lot more of what was going on under the hood, I was attracted to Ubuntu for its focus on the desktop, while still [...]
Here it is. Not that impressive and from reading the reviews, it might be a cheap plastic piece of crap. I thought that mine was. I couldn’t get it to work under Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 or OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. I don’t have any personal windows machines any more that aren’t virtual. Anyway, I [...]
After running Ubuntu Karmic Koala for about a month on the my Dell D420, I have decided to give OS X a try. I started here. Ended up here. 10.5 was a bust. 10.6 works great! The process I used was: 1. Get 10.6 disc or disc image. 2. Make an external hard drive version [...]
NO SPELL CHECK. Why do these products not have a built in spell checker? Or maybe they do but I can’t find it? Any MS apologists want to explain the rationale? I got iespell, I haven’t noticed it actually working in IE 8. I have switched back to Pidgin for many reasons. The damn ad [...]
Here’s another guy’s issues with Ext2IFS not remembering the drive letters on reboot. His solution is to run some scripts on startup. Don’t want to post the scripts? I’m sure it isn’t difficult, but any jump start is generally worthwhile. I was about to report also, but if Stephan already knows, then I’m sure it [...]
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