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, […]
We’re so popular!
Well, OK, not really. Today was the first time I actually went and took a look at the site statistics since we launched about 2 […]
The Magic of Lenny Backports
This afternoon saw me in a really annoying situation. I was in a coffee shop, wearing a beret, and writing poetry, and couldn’t get a […]
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 […]
How I solved my audio problems
Short answer: IRC and #fedora Long answer: As you may recall I have been without sound for quite some time now. Finally getting sick and […]
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 […]
DNS Not Satisfactory
While trying to connect to a remote webserver via SSH last night, I found that my machine refused to resolve the hostname to an IP […]
My audio doesn’t work anymore
Yup. Not sure why. It just happened. I have tried messing around in my audio settings and still nothing. In fact the only audio device […]
These lockups are getting pretty annoying
This morning I was using Firefox with about a dozen tabs open when my computer locked up. It froze and was completely unresponsive – basically […]
Mounting an NTFS-formatted External Drive
I have a Western Digital 250GB NTFS-formatted external hard drive that I use primarily to store backups of my Windows machine. Since I’m away from […]
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 […]
vpnc and me
After a brief hiatus of making posts (I document my daily trials all day at work, so it’s not usually the first thing I want […]
Wireless Network Manager Woes
Debian Lenny ships with the Network Manager package, version 0.6.6-4, which for all intents and purposes is a well written and very useful network management […]
New monitor woes
So I’ve gone out and purchased myself a gorgeous LG Flatron W2243T. Unfortunately, getting it to work correctly has proven difficult so far. It’s connected […]
Armacycles Advanced
This afternoon Phil, Jon, Sasha and myself engaged in a little Tron-esque gameplay thanks to the awesome 3D recreation known as Armacycle Advanced or sometimes […]
Eclipse Fails It
Man, Eclipse works great on Debian! It gives me this cool message on startup: JVM terminated. Exit code=127 /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/bin/java -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni -Dgnu.gcj.precompiled.db.path=/var/lib/gcj-4.2/classmap.db -Dgnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.library_control=never -Dosgi.locking=none -jar /usr/lib/eclipse/startup.jar […]
OpenOffice.org needs snappier application names
Seriously, the names in OpenOffice.org are pretty bland – “Spreadsheet”, “Word Processor”, “Presentation”, etc. However, that’s pretty much the only fault I could find so […]
Challenger Approaching: Phil tries to install openSUSE
I’m the newest guinea pig in this experiment, and yes, I’m a few days late joining up. Since I’ve already become comfortable with Ubuntu, I […]