Coming to Grips with Reality
The following is a cautionary tale about putting more trust in the software installed on your system than in your own knowledge. Recently, while preparing […]
Debian
Eclipse… Again
Man I’m beginning to sound like a broken record. Last night I reinstalled my Debian system. Somewhere along the line, I made a mess with […]
Configuring BlueZync and Failing at Barry
After successfully compiling and installing the BlueZync for Thunderbird plugin last night, I decided to take a shot at actually synchronizing my Blackberry with Thunderbird. […]
(Finally) Installing Bluezync for Thunderbird
After some constructive comments from Henrik, the developer of the BlueZync plugin for Thunderbird, I decided to take another shot at getting Blackberry sync working […]
Back at Square 1
This morning I reinstalled my Debian system. I began by downloading an ISO for the current Debian Stable build (called Lenny), and installing it with […]
Reinstalling Linux
Generally, after using a Windows machine for close to a year, it gets bogged down and slow and benefits greatly from a reinstall. After about […]
Distribution Upgrades
As with the release of Karmic Koala, the majority of the other distributions we here at The Linux Experiment have decided to run will also […]
Learning to live with XFCE
There’s no doubt that when I initially switched from GNOME to XFCE, I was pretty angry. But hey, you can’t stay mad forever – In […]
GUI Failure
Now that I’m running the Testing repositories, I actually get regular updates. Today, there were 15 available for my system. However, when I started the […]
XFCE: A Bitch Session
After a full day of using XFCE as my new desktop environment, I have just a few complaints, handily summarized in the following ordered list: […]
Testing out Testing
With everybody switching up their desktop environments this week, I decided that I’d take a shot at installing XFCE on my system. My initial research […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]