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2013
Developer Martin Owens explains why he decided to end his Ubuntu membership — and I talk about my views of Canonical, Ubuntu and the future of computingoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2013
How to kill the X server in Linux: alt-PrintScreen-k does what ctrl-alt-backspace used to dooriginal ↗
4 Mar 2013
28 Feb 2013
Flash 11 doesn’t work on older CPUs in Linux — here’s how to fix that by replacing it with Flash 10original ↗
7 Feb 2013
27 Jan 2013
2012
18 Dec 2012
Video: $40 iPhone screen protector from BodyGuardz won’t scratch or break after assault with construction nails, X-Acto knives, even a hammeroriginal ↗
18 Dec 2012
7 Dec 2012
5 Dec 2012
Beyond Amazon: Big businesses can build their own cloud with the help of Nebula, OpenStackoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2012
What’s coming to the final new building at Burbank and Van Nuys boulevards on Van Nuys Auto Row? I vote for Coffee Bean (but it’s probably going to be a bank)original ↗
4 Dec 2012
29 Nov 2012
25 Nov 2012
And then my mind split open: I start using KVM and Virtual Machine Manager in Debian Wheezyoriginal ↗
24 Nov 2012
22 Nov 2012
GNOME 3 update: ‘Connect to Server’ lives in GNOME 3.5/3.6, I rant about features being moved and removed, and I fix my GNOME 3.4 problem in Debian Wheezyoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2012
I needed an AM radio to listen to Daily News columnist Jill Painter talk USC-UCLA on ‘McIntyre in the Morning’original ↗
16 Nov 2012
15 Nov 2012
5 Nov 2012
Windows 8 launch – Jim Zemlin and the Free Software Foundation have their say | Linux Useroriginal ↗
28 Oct 2012
Using Wget With FTP To Download/Move Web Sites Recursively | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorialsoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2012
27 Oct 2012
15 Oct 2012
The PyBlosxom blogging software isn’t dead, but it’s not terribly alive either, plus why I use Ode as my flat-file blogging system of choiceoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2012
1 Oct 2012
Better-late-than-never review: The ZaReason Limbo 6000A desktop computer running Linux Mint 12original ↗
30 Sept 2012
The $99 supercomputer: Adapteva turns to Kickstarter for funding to get its massively parallel, fully open Raspberry Pi killer off the groundoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2012
Lots of updates today in Debian Wheezy, plus when I think it will go Stable and why I stick with Debian as my distro of choiceoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2012
17 Sept 2012
15 Sept 2012
14 Sept 2012
12 Sept 2012
When sleep hurts: UCLA doctor tells you how to make your bed — and lie in it — to eliminate back painoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2012
Screenshot of my new Xfce 4.8 desktop in Debian Wheezy, plus a list of tweaks I’ve made in the last dayoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2012
12 Jun 2012
Chatsworth-based DSL Extreme: No plans — or need — to go IPv6 at this time; so what are web sites and ISPs going to do?original ↗
7 Jun 2012
6 Jun 2012
Q&A with BoingBoing developer Dean Putney: How the popular site handles millions of views per month — and why it switched from Movable Type to WordPressoriginal ↗
1 May 2012
Review: DragonFlyBSD 3.0.1 — the longest DragonFlyBSD review ever — Part 6: DragonFlyBSD notes — things I picked up along the wayoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2012
Review: DragonFlyBSD 3.0.1 — the longest DragonFlyBSD review ever — Part 5: Comparison to OpenBSD 5.0 and closing commentsoriginal ↗
8 Apr 2012
Review: DragonFlyBSD 3.0.1 — the longest DragonFlyBSD review ever — Part 4: Exploring DragonFlyBSD and its GUI issuesoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2012
Review: DragonFlyBSD 3.0.1 — the longest DragonFlyBSD review ever — Part 3: Installing DragonFlyBSDoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2012
5 Apr 2012
4 Apr 2012
Debian Stable — set it and forget it — spoils me for fresh Linux Mint 12 on some very nice ZaReason hardwareoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2012
I just installed ownCloud: It’s like my own, wholly controlled version of Google Docs (without the spying) and Dropbox (without the cost)original ↗
16 Feb 2012
17 Jan 2012
2011
15 Dec 2011
CentOS remains way behind in tracking RHEL, Scientific Linux does better, but Debian and Ubuntu deserve consideration, toooriginal ↗
13 Dec 2011