Something to do with free software
Taking Wine for a spin
Wine, or W.I.N.E. Is Not an Emulator, is a set of compatibility libraries that allow some Windows applications to run pseudo naively on Linux by […]
Free Software
Tips & Tricks for Fedora (and others!)
I honestly can’t remember how I stumbled across this website but there is a lot of useful information there. Rather than go through the 14 […]
GNOME slip ups; a KDE perspective
My beefs with GNOME, from a KDE perspective
The road to GNOME
As you know we are all going to be transitioning from our current desktop environment (DEs) to something new. I did a bit of quick […]
Climate Change
Here at The Linux Experiment we are all about shaking things up. After all, we have committed to using Linux for four whole months just […]
Impending 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 […]
Blackbery Sync Attempt #3: Compiling from Source
After my first two attempts at getting my Blackberry to sync with Mozilla Thunderbird, I got pissed off and went right to the source of […]
WTF #17(qq)
It’s no secret that Linux, as with any other operating system (and yes, I realize that I just grouped all Linux distributions into a collective) […]
Top 10 things I have learned since the start of this experiment
In a nod to Dave’s classic top ten segment I will now share with you the top 10 things I have learned since starting this […]
Resolving the DNS Issue Once and For All
A little while ago, I wrote about problems that I was having with my laptop not resolving DNS requests. After I restarted today (because X11 […]
Update: I can have my cake and eat it too!
If you have been following my posts on here you’ll know that I have a very… fragile setup. I am doing everything in my power […]
Setting up some Synergy
Last night I was able to set up a neat little program that I think you should all know about! Synergy allows you to set […]
Barry: Round Two with the Blogosphere riding Shotgun
Given the problems that I’ve been having lately with getting my Blackberry calendar and contacts to synchronize with anything in Linux, I was quite surprised […]
Barry: The Open-Sourced Blackberry Utility
There is no denying that the installation process for the Barry project sucks. That said, the promise of having the ability to sync my blackberry […]
A minor setback
Since this crazy job of mine doesn’t quite feed my mad electronics fetish as much as I might like to, I do a lot of […]
Installing Gnome Do with Docky on openSUSE
Before I switched to Windows 7 for my laptop, I used a a dock software called RocketDock to manage my windows and commonly used desktop […]
Programming on Linux
Now that school as resumed I am getting to spend a lot of time with my Linux install doing day to day productive tasks. The […]
Gaaaaaaaaaaaay(mes) for Linux
Ever the Windows enthusiast, I’ve always been deeply involved in the world of PC gaming. It’s something I’ve always loved to do, and I’ve been […]
Softphones, anyone?
Any recommendations for a softphone (VOIP client) that runs under Gentoo? I’m at the end of my rope – my usual poison X-Lite doesn’t want […]