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 [...]

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, [...]

I recently built a working Windows XP machine because Ubuntu was just not supported well enough for work. I used my old T40 so I could preserve my T60p until I was sure I had everything right.
Today I went to move the system over. I’ve done this many times over the years both as my [...]