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2011

Tiny blogs: When WordPress is too damn bigoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2011
The Sinclair ZX81 was my first computer. Watch Tech Republic take it completely apartoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2011
File under ‘this can’t be a good sign’: Unity development stalls for openSUSE, Fedoraoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2011
Lenovo G555 Alps touchpad performs about 80 percent better in Fedora 15 daily build than it does in Windows 7 or most current Linux distrosoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2011
A very early look at Fedora 15 through the 2/17/11 nightly build: It’s surprisingly stableoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2011
It’s a gedit kind of dayoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2011
Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Alpha 2 live CD — Video works, it’s all downhill from thereoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2011
Life, the Universe and Debianoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2011
Simple living, simple blogging: The Frugal & Simple Living and Becoming Minimalist blogsoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2011
Updated: Java in the web browser in Debian Squeeze — you have to add it (but today — Feb. 8, 2010 — where exactly is it?)original ↗
8 Feb 2011
Book review: ‘Ubuntu: Up and Running,’ by Robin Nixon (O’Reilly)original ↗
7 Feb 2011
Poppy and her birthday pigoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2011
Anniversary of Ritchie Valens’ death in 1959 – hear him during his return to Pacoima Junior High in Dec. 1958original ↗
4 Feb 2011
If you have access to a web server, create a simple, database-free blog in 5 minutes with FlatPressoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2011
‘Like’ the HeliOS Project on Facebook and help get Linux systems to kids and others in needoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2011
CMS and blog software without databasesoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2011
Lenovo G555 with updated G550 driver for Alps touchpad doesn’t help jumpy-cursor issueoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2011
The Macintosh is 27 years old. It’s not a round number, so I’m confused (and I end up writing mostly about Unix anyway)original ↗
25 Jan 2011
AOL Mail: Works for some, not for othersoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2011
From Raphal Hertzog: Debian is eating its own dog food more than everoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2011
Countdown to Debian Squeezeoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2011
Living on the edge with the Liquorix kernel, which offers out-of-the-box sound fix for Lenovo G555 (Conexant 5069)original ↗
21 Jan 2011
Debian Squeeze set for Stable release on Feb. 5 or 6 – it’s a distro you shouldn’t ignoreoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2011
Debian Squeeze on the horizon – and of all the systems that could like my hardware so well, I’m extremely glad it’s this oneoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2011
Henry Wolfe sings ‘Van Nuys’ with strings accompanyingoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2011
Qualcomm buys Atheros – good luck with thatoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2011
Commenting still turned off for the Insidesocal.com blogsoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2011
Debian Squeeze cleans up the grub2 wallpaper in desktop-base, and we’re a bit closer to Stableoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2011
Daily News’ Insidesocal.com blogs slow to updateoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2011
Clear 4g / Sprint 3g broadbandoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2011

2010

Linux Mint Debian Edition now available in 64-bit, with performance boostoriginal ↗
28 Dec 2010
Viral video: ‘I Own a Deli, I’m a Jew,’ to the tune of ‘I Write the Songs’original ↗
21 Dec 2010
“What’s this ‘DEEE-bee-en’ you write about?” Or will Linux ever (ever?) make its move on the desktop?original ↗
20 Dec 2010
Debian Squeeze updates gdm3 today, and goofy spaceship theme is on the login screen toooriginal ↗
9 Dec 2010
I signed up to be a beta tester of the new Google Chrome notebookoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2010
This just in: Matt Asay leaves Ubuntu parent company Canonicaloriginal ↗
8 Dec 2010
A nail in Flash’s coffin: YouTube is running an HTML5 Betaoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2010
The new Debian wallpaper just rolled onto my Squeeze desktoporiginal ↗
7 Dec 2010
Salix 13.1.2 live CD: first impressionsoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2010
Salix 13.1.2 works perfectly with ATI Mobility Radeon 4200 HD video if you pass nomodeset in the boot line; plus a recap of what works/doesn’t with this video chiporiginal ↗
6 Dec 2010
Debian Squeeze: How to get AOL’s AIM, Yahoo Messenger and more in Empathyoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2010
Here’s one reason I’m glad to be off the bleeding edge and running Debianoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2010
Goodbye Fedora, welcome back Debian, Part 2: Review of Debian Squeezeoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2010
Ina Fried goes from CNET to WSJ’s All Things Digitaloriginal ↗
29 Nov 2010
Goodbye Fedora, welcome back Debian, Part 1original ↗
27 Nov 2010
Sprint offering free food-truck grub on Cyber Monday in 4G promotionoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2010
Preupgrade kills Fedora 13-to-14 system; starting over with fresh Fedora 13 installoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2010
I’m running preupgrade right now to move from Fedora 13 to 14original ↗
23 Nov 2010
I’m getting ever so close to pulling the trigger on a Fedora 13-to-14 upgradeoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2010
Plug computing — sounds great, but are these things tough enough?original ↗
19 Nov 2010
How do I feel about Unity and Wayland in Ubuntu?original ↗
17 Nov 2010
What do you think about the lack of tags or categories in this blog?original ↗
17 Nov 2010
gThumb fixes a bug in 2.12.1 (and have I mentioned lately how much I love gThumb?)original ↗
17 Nov 2010
Should I upgrade to Fedora 14?original ↗
17 Nov 2010
I’m running the latest Fedora 13 kernel, 2.6.34.7-61, and I have ATI video and Conexant sound playing nicelyoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2010
My favorite text editor Notepad++ is a Windows apporiginal ↗
9 Nov 2010
Minimalist computing – thinning the herd (having nothing whatsoever to do with the Hurd)original ↗
9 Nov 2010
Debian totally flies (rant on the general state of Linux and my laptop included)original ↗
29 Oct 2010
Using an IMG instead of an ISO to put Debian on a USB Flash driveoriginal ↗
29 Oct 2010
Caption testoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2010
Fedora 14 with Live USB Creator and persistent storage for a dry run of the distributionoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2010
Spending the afternoon in Fedora 13original ↗
27 Oct 2010
Kicking the tires on Debian Squeezeoriginal ↗
26 Oct 2010
Restoring GRUB in Fedora 13 after you’ve killed itoriginal ↗
26 Oct 2010
Fedora 13: One day I love you, the next day you’re dead to mepushing kernel updates that break my system … but I’m holding on for the momentoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2010
Fedora 13 updates: New kernel 2.6.34.7-61 fixes NetworkManager suspend issueoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2010
I won’t use an operating system without easy-to-implement encryptionoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2010
Fedora 13 sailing alongoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2010
My iPod and/or Rhythmboxplays somehow convert oggs to MP3original ↗
19 Oct 2010
Debian Live is getting better all the timeoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2010
Fedora 13: Fixing sound and video for the Lenovo G555original ↗
13 Oct 2010
OpenBSD 4.7 and 4.8 on Lenovo G555 update – bringing alc0 to lifeoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2010
If at first (or 50th) you don’t succeed, try, try Ubuntu 10.10original ↗
11 Oct 2010
Bruce Byfield on ‘Ubuntu’s real contribution to free software’original ↗
7 Oct 2010
Is this the end of the line for ATI Mobility Radeon 4200 HD video in Linux? (Or … if after a kernel update a user’s screen goes blurry in the forest and there’s not a developer there to hear it, does it make a sound?)original ↗
6 Oct 2010
The question is, ‘Should I try OpenBSD/FreeBSD?’original ↗
5 Oct 2010
Red Hat in a financial-news nutshelloriginal ↗
1 Oct 2010
I brought out the OpenBSD 4.7-stable laptop and ran the latest patchoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2010
Her name is Krystal Ball (really), and she’s running for Congressoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2010
‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ on one ukulele – yep, it’s Jake Shimabukurooriginal ↗
23 Sept 2010
Fedora 13 wants to keep 3 kernels, I want more: Here’s how to do itoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2010
gThumb 2.11.90 – I’m working faster than everoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2010
Back to the open ati driver and kernel 2.6.33 in Fedora 13original ↗
16 Sept 2010
Click video: Apple wants to get in bed with newspaper businessoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2010
First impressions of Linux Mint Debian — I’m more than a little intriguedoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2010
WordPress – easy as prebaked pieoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2010
Fedora 13 update: A month and a half or so inoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2010
Apple TV – small, $99, but does anybody want to pay 99 cents/show?original ↗
3 Sept 2010
Fedoraproject.org redesign looking really, really greatoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2010
I created a hackergotchi in the GIMP – with help, of courseoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2010
Seen in Van Nuys – Fresh tomatoes and leg waxingoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2010
Twitter’s new oauth feature has killed Pino 0.2 (AND Gwibber, too) … but oauth support is coming to 0.3 … and on a related note, is oauth trying to KILL ME?original ↗
31 Aug 2010
My gThumb bug is fixed in 2.11.90 – and I couldn’t be a happier user of free, open-source softwareoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2010
There’s more than one Clickoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2010
Fedora updates applications when you’d think they wouldn’toriginal ↗
30 Aug 2010
Ubuntu 8.04 to 10.04 upgrade – so what happened?original ↗
28 Aug 2010
I post not to bury Debian but to praise itoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2010
Abiword has smart quotes!!original ↗
26 Aug 2010
I finally installed the Chromium browser in Fedoraoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2010
Ubuntu One taking care of Windows users … not so much users of other Linux distributionsoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2010
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