The Magic of Lenny Backports
This afternoon saw me in a really annoying situation. I was in a coffee shop, wearing a beret, and writing poetry, and couldn’t get a ‘net connection. The coffee shop runs an open network access point,...
View ArticleImpending Upgrades
Here’s another fun little tidbit – today I tried to use OpenOffice.org Writer seriously for the first time, and realized rather quickly that I was running version 2.1 of same. For those who don’t...
View ArticleTesting out Testing
With everybody switching up their desktop environments this week, I decided that I’d take a shot at installing XFCE on my system. My initial research showed that it is somewhat like a light-weight,...
View ArticleXFCE: A Bitch Session
After a full day of using XFCE as my new desktop environment, I have just a few complaints, handily summarized in the following ordered list: No Alt-Tab: I was under the impression that alt-tab window...
View ArticleGUI Failure
Now that I’m running the Testing repositories, I actually get regular updates. Today, there were 15 available for my system. However, when I started the update manager, I was confronted with this...
View ArticleLearning to live with XFCE
There’s no doubt that when I initially switched from GNOME to XFCE, I was pretty angry. But hey, you can’t stay mad forever – In time, I’ve learned to appreciate GNOME’s minimalistic cousin for what it...
View ArticleBack at Square 1
This morning I reinstalled my Debian system. I began by downloading an ISO for the current Debian Stable build (called Lenny), and installing it with the graphical installer. That done, I used a couple...
View ArticleI Cannot Has Eclipse?
On my Laptop, I am running Linux Mint 12. On my home media server, I am running Ubuntu 12.04Check out my profile for more information.
View ArticleEclipse… Again
Man I’m beginning to sound like a broken record. Last night I reinstalled my Debian system. Somewhere along the line, I made a mess with my repositories, and as Wayne suggested in the comments on one...
View ArticleHow is it doing that?
Just about everything that I’ve ever read about media playback on Linux has been negative. As I understand the situation, the general consensus of the internet is that Linux should not be relied on to...
View ArticleBlast from the Past: How is it doing that?
This post was originally published on December 15, 2009. The original can be found here. Just about everything that I’ve ever read about media playback [...]
View ArticleBlast from the Past: The Distributions of Debian
This post was originally published on August 21, 2009. The original can be found here. Like many of the other varieties of Linux, Debian gives [...]
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