Something to do with open source software
Samsung Captivate SGH-i896 Meets Linux
Yesterday, I picked up the newly launched (in Canada) Samsung Captivate. So far, I’m extremely impressed with the device. The super amoled display is gorgeous, […]
Open Source Software
VOIP with Linode, Ubuntu, Asterisk and FreePBX
Overview and Introduction I’ve been dabbling with managing a VOIP server for the past year or so, using CentOS, Asterisk and FreePBX on a co-located […]
One week, three distributions (Day 7: Conclusions)
Well it’s been an interesting week. I’ve gotten to try out three new distributions and share my thoughts with everyone here. My original goal was […]
One week, three distributions (Day 6: Linux Mint Debian Edition)
To round out the week I installed the newly released Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE). Like the other posts I have made I will walk […]
One week, three distributions (Day 4: Ubuntu 10.10)
Continuing where we left off I am now ready to report my first impressions of Ubuntu 10.10. I should start by apologizing a little bit, […]
One week, three distributions (Day 2: Kubuntu 10.10)
As noted in my previous post I have decided to try out a mini experiment wherein I test out three recently released distributions (Kubuntu 10.10, […]
Do something nice for a change
Open source software (OSS) is great. It’s powerful, community focused and, lets face it, free. There is not a single day that goes by that […]
Trying out the Chakra Project
After a little bit of pressure from the people responding to my previous post (My search for the best KDE Linux distribution), I have finally […]
A Matter of Opinion
Tonight I installed VirtualBox, an incredibly handy virtualization program that lets me run instances of Windows and other Linux distributions from the comfort of my […]
Very short plug for PowerTOP
Recently I decided to try out PowerTOP, a Linux power saving application built by Intel. I am extremely impressed by how easy it was to […]
lua + nginx + FastCGI on Debian
(This was originally posted here on my personal blog.) I’ve recently been doing some testing in lua, and have been comparing the results to the […]
Linux Media Players Suck – Part 1: Rhythmbox
The state of media players on Linux is a sad one indeed. If you’re a platform enthusiast, you may want to cover your ears and […]
Vorbis is not Theora
Recently I have started to mess around with the Vorbis audio codec, commonly found within the Ogg media container. Unlike Theora, which I had also […]
Empathy: What a Piece of Garbage
The Empathy instant messaging client for Gnome is not yet ready to be the default client on your favourite Gnome-based distribution. In fact, I can’t […]
Installing Apache on Ubuntu 9.10
Tonight I decided that I’d like to be able to do some web development from home. The basic suite is called LAMP, which stands for […]
My search for the best KDE Linux distribution
As some of you already know, I am a big fan of the KDE desktop environment (or KDE Workspaces or whatever they’re calling it these […]
The Great Linux Browser War (Well… sort of)
Recently while browsing the Internet I noticed that Mozilla Firefox was taking up an awfully large amount of RAM. In fact it’s RAM use continued […]
Using KDE on Windows
Since the end of The Linux Experiment I have started dual booting my laptop, switching between Kubuntu 9.10 and Windows 7 as needed. While this […]
Enabling Video Thumbnail Previews in Dolphin
Just a quickie here – if you keep video of any kind on your Kubuntu 9.10 system, you may have noticed that the Dolphin file […]
Restore the default Linux Mint 8 theme and colours
After playing with the GNOME Appearance preferences on my new Mint 8 installation, I managed to completely lose the color scheme, window decorators and other […]