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Choosing Linux Distrubitions – Tools to help you
Join the revolution! (art thanks to “7 Bits of Truth”) For people like me who are making their first foray into the Linux world, the choices of Linux flavors can be staggering. Each flavor, or...
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Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn is Released – Get it today!
7.04 is here! (thanks to Dhjiz for the screenshot) Ubuntu is unique among Linux distributions in that it has a six month release schedule that includes a long-term support edition every few...
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Where are the Fesity DVD ISOs? On bittorrent only…
Where are the DVDs?? (pic thanks to Andrew Mason) Following up on my prior post, if you’ve looked for a DVD ISO of Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn, you might have noticed that they aren’t mirrored and there...
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How to mount UDF DVDs in Ubuntu
I’ve been mighty ill recently, so it’s been a while since my last post, but I finally seem to be recovering and it’s time for another post. Traditionally recordable DVDs or CDs were written with the...
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Censorship is Evil – Fight it! (updated)
Franklin Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms – Thanks to dbking “Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always be the last resort of the boob and the...
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Running Windows in Ubuntu part 2 – VirtualBox rocks!
Following up on my prior post about running Windows (or other OS’s) in Ubuntu, I kept searching around for something better than VMware server. Why? I wanted something that was: Not only free, but...
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Overclocking the Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 makes me happy!
In the last few years I’ve been running computers from Dell and HP, but when I first switched to PCs from the Mac about 10 years ago I always built my own machines. Back in the day of the overclocking...
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Share folders via Samba without a password – easy!
Coming from the Windows world to Linux, one of the first things I wanted to do was to share directories on Ubuntu with my Windows laptop to easily transfer files. In Windows I can just right click a...
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Where Have I Been? and the Summer of Hardy Haron
Thanks to all of you that have been submitting comments. I’ll try to research a few and update the entries. I think there are a few tweaks needed for Hardy Haron too. So, where have I been? Well,...
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Restoring Windows MBR (Vista) – bootrec is also your friend
A lot of people have found my previous blog post about restoring your master boot record (MBR) helpful. I did assume, however, that you were using Windows XP. But, what if you (gasp), have a dual...
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