I still hold by my last blog entry that Ubuntu 7.10 is not quite ready for prime time. But, for those willing and interested enough into a little trial and error and a lot of Google searches (even used Google translation on a French blog to get the video working), it is possible to […]

I’ve been reading Stephen O’Grady’s blog for a while now. More often then not, I learn a bit about segments of the computer industry that I might have otherwise been ignorant to. A recent post discusses the merits of various “cool” user interface enhancements. Most of these started with Mac OS-X and made it into […]

I have settled on using Ubuntu as my primary operating system on both my personal laptop and my work machine(s). There were two three four driving forces behind the change.
First, I needed a non-Windows solution for my parents. Windows is just too susceptible to viruses, malware00% , spyware, adware, and Internet gunk. A Mac was […]

Over the past month, I’ve done a lot of “experimenting” with Linux for personal computers. I have come to the conclusion it is too much work for the “common man”. Further, I am of the opinion that Linux would not even be possible if it were not for the Internet and more significantly, Google, Yahoo, […]

I really want to use WLW for my blogging client. Unfortunately, the open source VM solution (QEMU) is not cut out for the task. It either ran really slow or it crashed (or both). All of which left me less than happy. However, the solution was sound and only the implementation was flaky.
Fortunately, I […]