Mostly Ignored
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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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Need inexpensive mouse add-on
PROBLEM: I have several older computers that I am rebuilding and none of them have PS/2 mouse ports. They are are built from donated parts, and are going to kids at my school, so they don’t cost me much but time and effort and I’m hoping to keep it that way. It looks like I…
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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…
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The Future of Health Care?
Should health care be rationed? It’s really a moot question because health care is already being rationed in the United States. HMOs (health maintenance organizations), like any other (successful) insurance company, remain profitable by taking in as much money as possible, while paying out as little as possible. Instead of looking at your car, calculating…
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Thank you, Vince McMahon
“Led proudly by the Fox News channel, today’s media seems to have torn a page from the Vince McMahon handbook of television drama. ” One of the greatest things about living in America is the comfort of always knowing you’re right. If your military, for example, happens to bomb a country halfway around the world…