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2009
Google gets into the DNS arena with its own public DNS service — so what does this mean for you?original ↗
7 Dec 2009
4 Dec 2009
Ubuntu Karmic fail update: Screensaver does OK … then it doesn’t, but laptop dying of its own accordoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2009
Latest Ubuntu Karmic Xorg fail takes a little time to bake … plus a foray into Audacity in Linuxoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2009
Ubuntu fixes Karmic kernel-mode-setting graphics bug for Intel chips (and renders me a happy Karmic user)original ↗
25 Nov 2009
19 Nov 2009
Heard at the Ubuntu Developer Summit: Goodbye GIMP, hello … nothing (and why every Linux user should consider gThumb over F-Spot)original ↗
19 Nov 2009
WorksWithU: Dell cozies up to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS – read the comments for an interesting take on the LTS as a ‘rolling release’ (followed by my enthusiastic support for same)original ↗
18 Nov 2009
17 Nov 2009
16 Nov 2009
Today in ‘Latest Ubuntu Karmic fails’: USB drives automount with UUID instead of ‘disk’ as their device nameoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2009
9 Nov 2009
Canonical’s Jono Bacon on the agony, ecstacy of Ubuntu Karmic – and my rant on the state of Linux todayoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2009
Ubuntu Karmic fail: Pidgin and the new Empathy won’t run in some cases until you make this fixoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2009
3 Nov 2009
Pulling the trigger on Ubuntu 9.10 upgrade, Part 4: I still have to dist-upgrade in the terminaloriginal ↗
2 Nov 2009
Pulling the trigger on Ubuntu 9.10 upgrade, Part 3: Bringing X back from the dead (and why, oh why didn’t the installer just do this for me?)original ↗
2 Nov 2009
2 Nov 2009
Ubuntu mirrors already slow as sludge – and Karmic is still 6 days away (plus an invitation to give Ubuntu Linux a spin on your own systems)original ↗
23 Oct 2009
Daily News endorses Paul Krekorian in CD2 runoff; otherwise all is quiet in two-horse raceoriginal ↗
21 Oct 2009
20 Oct 2009
DigiKam – Not really an image editor, but possibly the only one to do what I need it to dooriginal ↗
20 Oct 2009
Matt Asay on Red Hat vs. Novell vs. Oracle vs. CentOS (and how Windows benefits from piracy): the usual cogent analysisoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2009
Sidekick update: Microsoft says it’s got most if not all of the data; deaf community not happyoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2009
13 Oct 2009
Sources: Microsoft forgot to back up T-Mobile Sidekick data before upgrade; or was it sabotage?original ↗
13 Oct 2009
When you install Debian without a mirror, you need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list if you want to use a mirror once the system is runningoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2009
New (to me) update notifications in Ubuntu 9.04, plus fixing a ‘Distribution Updates’ issue in the Update Manageroriginal ↗
6 Oct 2009
Bad gpg keys when updating a Debian Etch box (preparing it for Lenny) and then replacing a corrupted libc6 … but end result is a broken systemoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2009
1 Oct 2009
25 Sept 2009
24 Sept 2009
24 Sept 2009
22 Sept 2009
21 Sept 2009
Everything you ever wanted to know about moving your iTunes library but were afraid to askoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2009
Google Apps falls down at Brown, Microsoft’s cloud challenge and marching orders for Apps developersoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2009
Partitioning a hard drive is the thing to do, although it doesn’t rise to the level of ‘saving the PC’ from all that ails itoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2009
Is my Ubuntu wireless issue caused by hardware or software? Maybe it’ll just go away (yeah …)original ↗
21 Sept 2009
20 Sept 2009
Now that the federal goverment — and Microsoft — are going all in on cloud apps, city of L.A. has more reason to do sooriginal ↗
18 Sept 2009
18 Sept 2009
17 Sept 2009
17 Sept 2009
Tropic of Vector – a blog devoted to Vector Linux Light, plus the Vector Linux Cookbook of Common Tasksoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2009
17 Sept 2009
12 Sept 2009
12 Sept 2009