So it is a great thing when a piece of hardware you bought turns out to run Linux. Serendipity specifically related to electronics and ability to run FOSS, maybe opendipity? I had bought the Western Digital MyBook NAS device because it of the network attached nature, the 1 TB size, and what I thought was [...]
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 [...]
GTDInbox for Gmail – Easy email management, organization and workflow based on GTD. So I have never, ever been good at organization. I have tried many different products and disciplines to get organized, but I have yet to find one that works for me. After a non-exhaustive search this morning, I have settled on trying [...]
Just a quick post to let everyone out there that still owns this monitor that you can use it nicely under Gnu/Linux, you just have to set the sync and refresh rates in your xorg.conf. My Ubuntu install didn’t do it auto-magically, so I had to go look. Looks like someone was still using theirs [...]
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