In my post on installing multiple operating systems on a test machine, I mentioned (or meant to) that all of the Linux distributions installed on that machine point to the same “swap” partition. The common lore is to make the swap partition 2x the available memory. One of the reasons for this is that, […]

What does it say when you spend more money for 8oz of cheese than you do for the bottle of wine ? Either the wine is really cheap or the cheese is really good. This evening it is the latter.
Onancock, Virginia is the quintessential clash of expectations. It is a historic village dating back […]

BTW: I added a night shot to the previous “harvest” post.

I previously posted about building out a test PC that has no less than 5 different operating systems. In that post I created a very small 256MB partition. Here’s why …
I use PartImage to make image backups. This is an open source application which is very close to products like Symantec Ghost or Acronis […]

While the title of this post is a bit cryptic to those not “in the know”, the news is of interest to at least a few. I participated in the “Give-1 Get-1″ campaign being promoted by Laptop.org where people in Canada and the United States with a postal address in Canada and the United States […]