Finding a replacement for Windows Home Server
Hello, everyone! It’s great to be back in the hot seat for this, our third installment of The Linux Experiment. I know that last time […]
Month: July 2013
My Initial Thoughts/Experiences with ArchLinux
Hello again everyone! By this point, I have successfully installed ArchLinux, as well as KDE, and various other everyday applications necessary for my desktop. Aside […]
Installing Linux to an external hard drive (+ driver issues)
While I haven’t quite figured out what I’m going to be doing for this round of The Linux Experiment, I have decided that now is […]
404 Oh No!
Some of you may have noticed some previously working links going to 404 (page not found) pages. This is due to a change we’ve made […]
Getting FreeBSD up and running with X.org and nVidia drivers
The Experiment has officially begun, and with that I’ve gone through the FreeBSD installation process. The actual install was fairly uneventful: apart from the fact […]
Installing Netflix on Kubuntu
The machine I am running Kubuntu on is primarily used for streaming media like Netflix and Youtube, watching files off of a shared server and […]
What is this, text for ants? Part II
Back to my shit-tastic eyesight for a moment. Now that we have our Bluetooth devices installed, I can now sit in front of my projector, instead […]
Installing Bluetooth devices on Kubuntu
This is actually a much easier process than I imagined it would be. First: Ensure your devices (mouse, headphones, keyboard, etc…) are charged and turned […]
Linux: does it work for workers who work in the workplace?
In the ramp-up to the 2013 Linux Experiment, I got ambitious and decided to try not only FreeBSD as my official entry, but to install […]
Dual Booting Ubuntu 13.04 and Windows 8 on a Lenovo Y400 IdeaPad
With the third edition of The Linux Experiment already underway, I decided to get my new laptop set up with an Ubuntu partition to work […]
What is this, text for ants? Part I
Unlike many people who may be installing a version of Linux, I am doing so on a machine that has a projector with a 92″ […]
Experience Booting Linux Using the Windows 7 Bootloader
Greetings everyone! It has been quite some time since my last post. As you’ll be able to read from my profile (and signature,) I have […]
This isn’t going well.
Today I started out by going into work, only to discover that it is NEXT Friday that I need to cover. So I came home […]
Come on, really?!
So it is 9:40 PM and I started my “Find a Linux distro to install” process. Like many people, I decided to type exactly what […]
Announcing The Linux Experiment (The Third!)
That’s right, time for round three! If you’ve been following this website in the past you know what this means. This time around our rules […]
Make printing easy with the Samsung Unified Linux Driver Repository
I recently picked up a cheap Samsung laser printer and decided to give the Samsung Unified Linux Driver Repository a shot while installing it. Basically […]
Listener Feedback Podcast Update (July 2013)
A couple new Listener Feedback podcast episodes have been released in case you missed them: Episode 21: Silence is Sexy – This Ain’t Hollywood (Pop, […]
Big distributions, little RAM 6
It’s that time again where I install the major, full desktop, distributions into a limited hardware machine and report on how they perform. Once again, […]
How to backup and restore a Trac project
If you use Trac as your bug and progress tracking tool then you too may one day need to take a backup of it or […]
How to backup and restore an SVN repository with full commit history
Sometimes you need to move an SVN repository from one server to another but maintain the full commit history (i.e. comments and changes). Here is […]