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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 [...]
My Xubuntu Laptop Has Sound!
21.Oct.06 | 1 Comment
Back in August, I wrote a post titled “The Quest for Noise” in which I described my trials and tribulations with getting the combination of my old Thinkpad 600E and Xubuntu to make noise without manually running a script after each reboot.
Warren dropped by earlier today and dropped a comment on that post with two [...]
Firefox Not Really Free?
03.Oct.06 | Leave a Comment
Firefox Not Really Free? Discuss.
The Quest for Noise
14.Aug.06 | 2 Comments
Want a good way to blow a lot of hours? Try to get sound working on an old Thinkpad 600e laptop. After a long afternoon, I’m very close. Not perfect yet… but close enough for now.
As a refresher, I’m running xubuntu.
I started my quest with this article at the ubuntu forums. [...]
On the other hand…OSX is a...