After speaking with Chris & Bryan from The Linux Action Show on episode 150 of TLLTS I now have more reasons to hate Apple. Basically Apple screws over the Mac developer community by constantly changing APIs and not allowing static linking of required libraries to 3rd party developers. So every time a new version of […]
Everyone I know seems to really like the Opera web browser. It’s fast, stable and is built using the qt toolkit. I decided to try it out full time for a few days and overall the experience has been quite good. Here’s a list of what I like and don’t like about it:
Like:
super fast
very stable
renders […]
As reported on the last episode of TLLTS my laptop as taken a turn for the worse. Besides the wireless card no longer working the DVD/CD-R combo drive has given up the ghost. Fortunately I’ve had the laptop less than a year and it’s still covered under the warranty. So I have to ship it […]
Yesterday at around 6:15 PM a torrential downpour started. It had been an extremely hot day with temperatures hitting a high of around 99 F (37 C). In the middle of the downpour marbles sized hail started pelting the ground and the house. My 2.5 year old son looks out the window and says […]
Recently I saw an article mention Demorecorder which is a screen capture program for Linux to create tutorials. You can download a trial version from the website that works for 30 days. The cheapest version is $49 with the most expensive version selling for $498. I downloaded and tried it out. One cool […]
Keir Thomas’ new book “Beginning Ubuntu Linux - From Novice to Professional” primarily focuses on getting Windows users up and running with Ubuntu Linux as quickly as possible. The author initially discusses the shortcomings of Windows and goes into the history of GNU/Linux. He then discusses the primary benefits of using Linux from […]
I recently received a stack of Kubuntu CDs in the mail and gave them out to a bunch of co-workers who are interested in checking out Linux for the first time. One of them decided to install it on his daughters PC that was infested with spyware and viruses under WinXP. The initial install […]
For the longest time I have been needing to get a UPS for my home systems. This is especially true since I have been running this blog for over a year now on a box that sits in my house. Everytime the power goes out the server goes off and I lose my connection to […]
Since the world leader personality test said I was most like Adolf Hitler perhaps this is the perfect pet for me:
In fact there is a web site dedicated to cats that resemble Hilter. Funny stuff.
Got around to backing up my blog server and laptop this weekend. I used a great tool called Mondo Rescue. It lets you backup an entire system or selected parts of it to CD, DVD, hard drive, tapes or NFS shares. A very nice suite of backup and recovery tools:
Definitely check […]