Something posted by our Guinea pigs
Guinea Pigs
TrueCrypt, kernel compilation and where’d /boot go?
Since I’ve installed Gentoo, I haven’t had access to my other drives. One of them is an NTFS-formatted WD Raptor, and the other is a […]
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 […]
More XKCD
I swear that I’ve encountered this before… That is all.
Perhaps the most useful Songbird addon ever: The Exorcist
Mad props (to use some ‘hip’ language) to the developers of The Exorcist, a Media View plugin for Songbird that does two things, and does […]
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 […]
Suriving September with The Linux
It’s been about a month now and my computer hasn’t melted down, so this is a good sign. Additionally, I haven’t been forced to drop […]
Songbird on Gentoo
For various reasons, Rhythmbox (the default GNOME audio player) returns this wonderful message, which I’m putting off troubleshooting for the time being: rhythmbox: error while […]
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 […]
New rule added to the experiment
We took a quick vote and decided to add a new rule to this ongoing experiment. Rule #5 now states: After committing to a distribution […]
Gentoo updates and annoyances
After hearing about the recent MintCast mention of our experiment, I figured it was high time to post an update with what’s gone right and […]
The Linux and its ability to brick itself.
Over the weekend, I started a stats assignment that required me to use R. R runs in the terminal, but when you create plots, it […]
Another kernel update, another rebuild of my kernel
Seriously, this is getting annoying… And just when I thought it couldn’t get anymore annoying… it seems as though there isn’t a kmod-catalyst for the […]
Happy birthday to us!
On top of Tyler’s self-congratulatory post, I’d like to commemorate that it’s been two months since our very first post here on The Linux Experiment, […]