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Then Again, Maybe Not
I suppose my earlier suspicions about MS killing their own products via “update” is one incident closer to proven. I had Win2K all properly installed, and I was trying to find a WPA Supplicant package for it, since the drivers … Continue reading
Trade Made: Laptop Arrives
My effort to trade the eMac for a laptop has paid off. Today I received via FedEx a Dell Inspiron 4100. Yes, it’s old, with a mere 1Ghz CPU, and I’m having to order RAM to make it a half-GB. … Continue reading
Craigslist and Crash
After two weeks of silence from my Craigslist post, I had forgotten it. While people who want Macs tend to be diligent about searching for available machines, I figured it was too old for anyone to care much. On the … Continue reading
XP: Give Me Control
One of the virtues of Linux is total user control, at least in most situations. If you want to delete a critical file, by all means delete it. Linux will allow it. Just remember it probably won’t restart if you … Continue reading
Linux Printing: Never Really Good
First off, let’s clarify the title is simply an expression of my personal experience. There was a time way back in the days of RedHat 6.2 when it worked really well. That was before CUPS and I had an old … Continue reading
Best Audio CD Player on Lenny: Amarok
I love playing good classical music when I’m trying to think. Notice I don’t claim to actually succeed at thinking, but I do succeed at listening to music. It works best if you can find something capable of doing it … Continue reading
CompSec: Another Doomsday Virus
I’m not a mindless fanboy. There are things about Linux which fail. Just now, as I was doing some research on this post, I ran into a website which caused a race condition on my Lenny box. I had to … Continue reading
Personal Preference: Debian Lenny AMD64
A couple of months ago, one of my clients asked me why I liked Linux so much. We discussed things we liked and disliked about various operating systems. This was no clueless user, but she was searching the options for … Continue reading
The Non-hobby User: Linux Distro Review
This will become a point of reference for future comments which seek to promote this or that favored Linux distribution. People tend to read some of my blog posts in isolation from the others on the same topic. Not much … Continue reading
The Wide Gulf: Techies and Ordinary Users
I seriously doubt any of my clients will ever be “Linux newbies” for the simple reason too many Linux people assume “newbie” means someone who will become one of the techies. That is, the term seems to assume this person … Continue reading