Well it’s a been a while. I was very busy entertaining family for Christmas but got around to installing kubuntu on a co-workers daughter’s laptop. My co-worker told me she had to re-install windows 3 times because of virus issues and spyware and that she was ready to try other options. It’s an older […]
Wow it’s been exactly a year since The Linux Show has been off the air. They had an announcement back in September that stated “Watch for the 18th for more details on how were have begun to reorganize.”. It didn’t happen. I like many other people were bummed out when nothing materialized after that. I […]
Arch Linux is the type of distro that gives you the power to decide how to do things. This is good and bad. Case in point automount. You can setup automount several differnet ways. You can use autofs, ivman or go the HAL/DBUS route. I tried all three and HAL/DBUS seems to function the best […]
Last week Linc told us about a fan film continuation of the original Star Trek series:
Star Trek: New Voyages
I got a chance to download and watch the 2 episodes that were available. In short I’m pretty impressed. The biggest weakness in fan films is usually the acting. But these were better than the average fan […]
Things are going pretty well with my laptop and Arch Linux. I’ve installed almost all the programs I need or want. There were a handful of applications (bpconf, sharpmusique, kdebluetooth, Netgo) that I had to compile becuase there were no Arch packages available. Today I did a bunch of things:
- installed Openoffice
- got automount configured […]
The plan B Walmart Balance notebook. The IC Power laptop finally came. The case and configuration was nice enough. A big monitor and a scroll bar on the touchpad and a pretty lightweight case. Unfortunately the wifi card and modem are not recognized under any live linux distro I tried. I ran some performance tests […]
In my last post I talked about ordering an IC Power laptop from Walmart. What I failed to mention was the order sat in ‘processing’ status for 2 days on the website. I called Walmart customer service and they said that it was out of stock and may or may not return. They would contact […]
A while back I suggested not purchasing anything worth more than $100 from Walmart. Well I just purchased a laptop from Walmart for $568.
I’ve gone back on my word because I’ve been thinking about a laptop purchase for quite some time now but really don’t have $1000+ to spend on one. I’d prefer not getting […]