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Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category.
Lately, a lot of people have been coming along because they have problems with Ubuntu Edgy. For those of you who do not know, Dapper is the current version of Ubuntu Linux. Edgy is the beta which is expected to be released in a month or so. Naturally, problems should be expected with a beta. Some people seem to just not be able to understand this concept. Continue reading ‘There’s a reason it’s called beta’ »
I am against IceWeasel. Debian and related distributions are going to setback Linux on the desktop in the name of ideology. The few people who are actually pro-IceWeasel will stick around, and the normal users will either find greener pastures or replace IceWeasel with the real Firefox. Personally, I’m uninstalling the Firefox on my Ubuntu and installing the real Mozilla version.
You may or may not have heard of a man named Daniel Robbins. There might be more than one Daniel Robbins, but the one I’m talking about is the founder of Gentoo Linux. There was quite a stir around 8 months ago when he announced he was leaving Gentoo to work at Microsoft in their Linux lab. There was quite another stir just the other day when he quit Microsoft. Continue reading ‘Daniel Robbins = Me’ »
There has been something bothering me very recently that I would like to share with you. I’ve been getting all my news from the Internet for over 6 years now, and I can’t say I’m more pleased. Google, Firefox, RSS, del.icio.us and others have all combined to make my browsing experience better and better over the years. Thanks to these technologies I can acquire new information in a very small amount of time without having to manually filter out a lot information I don’t care for.
Continue reading ‘del.icio.us Flim Flam Tag’ »
Over the weekend I rebuilt the software on my computer. I reinstalled Windows XP, as is necessary once in awhile. Windows for me now is just a Steam machine, so hopefully it will be a long while before I do this again. Luckily the legally free key I got in college is still good, and I didn’t even have to call in to MS to re-activate. Two things were finally fully confirmed for me during this install. First, Windows performance does indeed degrade over time. The older the install of Windows is, and the more it is used, the slower it gets. Secondly, a completely unpatched Windows XP is wicked fast. Every layer of updates you apply makes it slower. But I guess you have no choice if you don’t want to be hacked to bits. If you have Windows only to play single player games I highly suggest you disable all networking and use the original unpatched XP.