I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T60p for work. I have an IBM Thinkpad X60 (refurb) for my personal computer. Given the corporate policies enforced in today’s business world, there I keep my personal content (blogs, personal email, photographic work, money manager, etc.) off my work computer. However, when I travel, I don’t want to carry [...]

I’ve become one of those recent “converts” - not to one of the coveted MacBooks but to using Linux on my personal and work laptops. I will admit, the Mac is better for a couple of reasons which mostly boil down to “its easer to develop to a small set of variables than to a [...]

My Thinkpad T60p has been running Ubuntu for about 4 months and I’ve enjoyed [almost] every moment. I agree it is not perfect - suspend / hibernate still not supported - but with a multi-desktop GUI, a very productive dock (Avant Window Manager), remote terminals (VNC and Remote Desktop), business tools, research tools, etc. I’ve [...]

I’ve been looking for a good “screen recording” solution for Ubuntu. When I was a windows guy, I used Camtasia 5. It worked really well. For a while they were even giving away version 3 but that seems to have gone away. Still, if you use Windows, you can make 30 days worth [...]

I nuked my Ubuntu Linux work laptop a couple of weeks ago - on purpose. The ATI video was unpredictable and my Thinkpad T60p would not sleep or hibernate (both known issues due to the ATI chipset). I took a bit of extra time before completely building it back up. I didn’t want [...]

Well, in a week’s time, I will no longer use Ubuntu for my work laptop. I really like the clean efficient experience I get from Ubuntu but my corporate support and the applications I need for work just don’t give Linux the same credence that comes to Windows XP. The downfall came in three parts:

I [...]

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 [...]