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Kubuntu 24.04 on Dell Latitude 3540
Everything works out of the box, though it does require some effort to configure a couple of things. The biggest item: I got my laptop to hibernate on Kubuntu 24.04. A few years ago I wrote a long blog post … Continue reading
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Tagged Dell Latitude, Kubuntu, linux
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Kubuntu: Still the Shortest Path to Linux
Some years ago, I published an ebook: The Shortest Path to Linux featuring Kubuntu Linux. The contents are long out of date, as is typical of the fast moving field of computer technology. Still, regardless of what you may think … Continue reading
Epson LQ-590ii on CUPS/Linux
I got it to work. After hours of searching on the Net using multiple search engines, I never saw anyone explain how to make this work, so I invested some time, lots of wasted paper and no end of frustration … Continue reading
A System Recovery
This is shop talk; you can skip this post. The new laptop was doing something inappropriate, so I tried to recover my Win11 installation from backup just so I could see if the problem persisted. The warranty would not be … Continue reading
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Tagged computer peripherals, computer technology, Linux Mint, Open Source software, Windows software
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Cyber Threats Increasing
Well, we had an outage on Friday from a large number of services. Their Windows computers were all crashed because they were using a security package from Crowdstrike. It conflicted with Windows and caused the “blue screen of death”. Keep … Continue reading
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Tagged Crowdstrike, Cybersecurity, LibreOffice, Linux Mint, MS Office, windows
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Uncensored Search Engines?
You’d have to wonder if such thing as “uncensored search engine” is an oxymoron these days. If they are very effective in the first place, they are biased. And if they are uncensored, they lack investment. It’s easy to prove … Continue reading
Ask Me Why
The subsystem in Linux called systemd is okay… until it’s not. From what I read in the commentary online, the kernel itself is less complicated and Byzantine than systemd. Yet, systemd is controlled by a tiny few people who are … Continue reading
Faith Puzzle
There’s a Java game you can get for free: jShisen. There’s an installer for Windows and a zipped file for everyone else. For Windows, you’ll need to be sure and get Java installed. I recommend you get it here. It’s … Continue reading
Windows File Sharing — SMB3
The current emphasis in Windows world is file sharing via the cloud. However, there may be good reasons to avoid that. You could use the SSH server in Windows the way Linux does, and install an SFTP client such as … Continue reading
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Tagged networking, sysadmin, windows
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Slimjet Censors Websites
In the past I had recommended the Slimjet browser as a good alternative to Google Chrome. It has some nifty features. However, an unexpected “feature” recently appeared: It censors some websites. I was testing how Slimjet worked under certain conditions … Continue reading