Something posted by our Guinea pigs
Say you are travelling, or are at a neighbourhood coffee shop, using whatever unsecured WiFi network they make available. You could either: trust that no […]
In my last post, I discussed several Docker containers that I’m using for my home media streaming solution. Since then, Plex Media Server has updated to 0.9.11.4 for […]
I recently took it upon myself to rebuild a general-purpose home server – installing a new Intel 530 240GB solid-state drive to replace a “spinning rust” […]
Recently the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group held a couple of presentations on setting up your own personally hosted cloud. With their permission we are […]
It’s been a while but once again here is the latest instalment of the series of posts where I install the major, full desktop, distributions […]
This assumes you want to set a static IP address on the network device eth0. Open up the interfaces file sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces and remove […]
The initial version of CoreGTK, version 2.24.0, has been tagged for release today. Features include: Targets GTK+ 2.24 Support for GtkBuilder Can be used on […]
A big part of my move from Windows to Linux has been finding replacements for the applications that I had previously used day-to-day that are […]
With the recent questions surrounding the security of TrueCrypt there has been a big push to move away from that program and switch to alternatives. […]
If you are not familiar with the concept of virtual hard drive volumes, sometimes called file containers, they are basically regular looking files that can […]
If you’ve used KeePass on Windows you may be very attached to its auto-type feature, where with a single key-combo press the application with magically […]
If you’ve had issues trying to get Thunderbird to send your PGP signed e-mail using anything other than SHA-1 there is a quick and easy […]
I recently invested in a NAS device to add a little bit of redundancy to my personal files. With this particular NAS the most convenient […]
If, like me, you’ve recently upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 only to find out that for whatever reason you can no longer VNC to that machine […]
I’ve recently become addicted to Minecraft. I realize that I’m late to this game, having only recently discovered it despite its popularity over the past […]
This past year I purchased a laptop that came with two drives, a small 24GB SSD and a larger 1TB HDD. My configuration has placed […]
The default sort order in Nautilus has been changed to sorting alphabetically by name and the option to change this seems to be broken. For […]
Install number one: LMDE 201303. Â I was hoping for the best of both worlds, but I got driver issues instead. Â LMDE has known ATI proprietary […]
It’s interesting reading the old Linux Experiment first posts when people were contemplating which distro to install.  It’s been 4.5 years since then and the […]