Blast from the Past: The Distributions of Debian
This post was originally published on August 21, 2009. The original can be found here. Like many of the other varieties of Linux, Debian gives […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Where did my Desktop go?!?!
My desktop used to have icons… And when I right-clicked on it, a fancy little menu came up that let me do things to it. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
How to not install XBMC on Debian Lenny
So tonight I got a terrible idea. I figured that I’d try to install XBMC, the awesome media centre app for modded Xbox consoles. Turns […]
The Distributions of Debian
Like many of the other varieties of Linux, Debian gives the end user a number of different installation choices. In addition to the choice of […]