Category Archives: Computers
1 in 4 Million
September 7, 2006 – 12:43 pm
Apparently there are four million of us Ubuntu users (I’m assuming they’re including Kubuntu in the mix). That sounds like a lot, until you realize that it’s only about 2/3 the number of Windows computers that are zombies.
Upgrade
July 21, 2006 – 11:13 pm
Yesterday I upgraded my main computer from Kubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) to 6.06 (Dapper). It’s probably one of the most painless upgrades of any that I’ve done: I few lines changed and typed, and apt-get does it all.
Does Internet Shaming of Companies Really Help?
July 5, 2006 – 2:50 pm
The Washington Post observes the trend of Internet shaming, in which people embarrass companies and individuals online for their bad behavior.
Hitachi Travelstar Supernovas
June 27, 2006 – 9:25 pm
Some time this morning my wife’s laptop hard drive bit the dust. It crashed for good with no warning, just making a clicking sound when we powered the computer. I booted into Knoppix, and when it did detect a hard drive at all it said “can’t find superblock.” I even put the drive in the […]
Flash for 64-bit Fedora Core 4
March 21, 2006 – 10:58 pm
I complained last week that there’s no Flash for Linux 64-bit. Ziobudda asked why I didn’t just install the 32-bit Firefox. Why not? I couldn’t think of any good reason. So here’s how I did it. First of all, I wanted to use yum so I could avoid all dependency issues (not to mention it […]