I’ve been setting up a fresh Ubuntu 9.10 install with my commonly used apps (probably more on those later) and reached the point where I tackle Evernote. There is no native Linux version — and I get the impression there never will be — so traditionally I’ve installed the Windows version under wine. I grabbed
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I like to install Wubi on my Windows machines. I don’t use Linux full time, but definitely like to have it around and Wubi is a very easy way to make that happen. You have to be careful though: If you’re on a 64 bit machine then Wubi will install a 64 bit Ubuntu (or It has been almost a year since my last look at Puppy Linux so I dusted off the old ThinkPad 600e laptop (pentium 2!) and had a look at Puppy 4.2.1. Initially it would hang while booting from CD. After some searching I learned to give the “acpi=force” argument at boot and that got things going. Once I’ve had some “amusing” times with my ntop server(s) lately… Ntop has been my tool of choice when it comes to monitoring network traffic for a couple years now. It generally does exactly what I need it to do. For the last year or so I’ve happily been running it from a CentOS Linux I just have to get this off my chest: Why the bloody h*ll is 64 bit computing so much easier with Windows than it is with Linux? How could such a thing be?!? Seriously. Heck, I’m a Linux advocate in most scenarios, but this stuff just makes me feel stupid. I have a home machine dual-booting Ubuntu |
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