Viewing Articles with the tag: Ubuntu
Linux Can Still Frustrate
16.Jul.07 | 6 Comments
I swear, my Toshiba laptop just doesn’t want to run Ubuntu Linux. It should — it used to with older versions. Tonight I went through almost the exact same experience as what happened back in April. (failure)
See, I want to do some network bandwidth monitoring this week at work. After a look around, it seems [...]
Thursday Thoughts
24.May.07 | 4 Comments
Random thoughts and links follow:
There’s a downside to the “I follow” movement. I’ve been seeing these “seo magic” articles that list out all the blogs they’ve found not using “nofollow” and encourage folks to leave comments for SEO purposes. I get some garbage comments… If the comment is tolerable but the link [...]
Follow-up on the Dead Computer
15.May.07 | Leave a Comment
After much swapping of parts, it is either the motherboard or CPU. Fortunately, I have a friend who is much more current than I. When he heard about my woes, he offered up an “old” PC of his for parts.
What’s it mean when his old PC is an upgrade for me? Think [...]
No Ubuntu Today
24.Apr.07 | 3 Comments
I noticed that the 7.04 “Feisty Fawn” release of Ubuntu was recently announced. My work laptop has been giving me some grief lately so on a whim I grabbed the ISO, booted from it and installed Ubuntu.
The laptop is a two year old Toshiba Tecra, running the 1.60GHz Pentium M and Centrino chipset. [...]
What are my options?
20.Dec.06 | 12 Comments
I want a simple OS or application that I can install on an old PC (former server) and run it as file and print server. Nothing fancy, nothing great: Just share files and a printer.
Currently I have a home network and a Windows 2003 Active Directory server. It was a great learning [...]
