Category: Technology
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Uptimes
What’s your best uptime? I use a program called “uptimed” (i don’t have the website, but if you can apt-get it through Debian) to keep track. todd@Laurier:~$ uprecords # Uptime | System Boot up —————————-+————————————————- -> 1 56 days, 17:05:13 | Linux 2.6.8-2-k7 Fri Mar 11 23:00:41 2005 2 11 days, 20:10:29 | Linux 2.6.8-2-k7…
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Bill Gates Envisions Cars that Can’t Crash
(Insert your own joke here). See here.
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Website/blog software recommendations?
As presiding tech guru/nerd of my neighbourhood association, it’s fallen to me to design and build a website. It’s nothing new to me — I’ve built them from scratch for over 10 years, but I don’t have the time to do it that I used to. I’d like some options for an easy to maintain…
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Deskshots – Screen captures of your desktop!
A lot of people who say that they don’t like Linux have actually never seen it or used it… they just think that since it isn’t Windows it can’t be any good. Anyway, here’s the desktop I look at every morning (until I change the layout). Debian Sarge (testing) with KDE @ 1152×864 pixels.
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Xandros 3.0.1 Open Circulation Edition
As I sit here writing this on “Laurier”, my trusty, home-built AMD/Debian box, I’m watching “Pearson” (an older, less trusty, mass-produced Compaq Presario with a faulty power switch) install the latest open circulation version of Xandros. Released on Valentine’s Day, Xandros 3.0.1 OC looks to be a decent if unromantic gift to computer users worldwide,…
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Ubuntu Linux 4.10: The Warty Warthog Release
Having recently tried the latest Debian testing distribution (pre-3.1 “Sarge”), I was curious to try Ubuntu, which, like Debian is completely free of charge. As their site proclaims: ‘Ubuntu will always be free of charge, and there is no extra fee for the “enterprise edition”‘. Always a plus, when you’re choosing a distribution to stick…
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Debian 3.1 (“Sarge”) Pre-Release
It’s one of the most well established and highly respected distributions available, and the praise that Debian has earned is well deserved. While it has been less popular with those seeking frequent new releases and cutting edge features pre-installed, it’s been a favorite workhorse system for those those requiring a solid, dependable system. (Of course,…
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Mandrake 10.1 Official
If I have one criticism about the Linux community, it is the small, but vocal minority who seem to rank the quality of distributions inversely by their user friendliness. Having cut my Linux teeth on Red Hat 5.0 [Hurricane] circa 1998 (a relatively easy install for the time by FTP) I don’t consider myself a…