Installing Bluetooth devices on Kubuntu
This is actually a much easier process than I imagined it would be. First: Ensure your devices (mouse, headphones, keyboard, etc…) are charged and turned […]
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Linux: does it work for workers who work in the workplace?
In the ramp-up to the 2013 Linux Experiment, I got ambitious and decided to try not only FreeBSD as my official entry, but to install […]
What is this, text for ants? Part I
Unlike many people who may be installing a version of Linux, I am doing so on a machine that has a projector with a 92″ […]
Experience Booting Linux Using the Windows 7 Bootloader
Greetings everyone! It has been quite some time since my last post. As you’ll be able to read from my profile (and signature,) I have […]
This isn’t going well.
Today I started out by going into work, only to discover that it is NEXT Friday that I need to cover. So I came home […]
Come on, really?!
So it is 9:40 PM and I started my “Find a Linux distro to install” process. Like many people, I decided to type exactly what […]
An Experiment in Transitioning to Open Document Formats
Recently I read an interesting article by Vint Cerf, mostly known as the man behind the TCP/IP protocol that underpins modern Internet communication, where he […]
Limit Bandwitdth Used by apt-get
It’s easy. Simply throw “-o Acquire::http::Dl-Limit=X” in your apt-get command where X is the kb/s you wish to limit it to. So for example let’s […]
Automatically put computer to sleep and wake it up on a schedule
Ever wanted your computer to be on when you need it but automatically put itself to sleep (suspended) when you don’t? Or maybe you just […]
Sabayon Linux – Stable if not without polish
I have been running Sabayon Linux (Xfce) for the past couple of months and figured I would throw a post up on here describing my […]
How to play Red Alert 2 on Linux
The other day I finally managed to get the classic RTS game Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 running on Linux, and running well in […]
Linux From Scratch : The Beginning…
Hi Everyone, If you don’t remember me, I’m Dave. Last time for the experiment I used SuSE, which I regretted. This time I decided to […]
Experiment 2.0
As Jake pointed out in the previous post we have once again decided to run The Linux Experiment. This iteration will once again following the […]
Big distributions, little RAM 3
Once again I’ve decided to re-run my previous tests this time using the following distributions: Debian 6.0.2 (GNOME) Fedora 15 (GNOME 3 Fallback Mode) Fedora […]
Create a GStreamer powered Java media player
For something to do I decided to see if I could create a very simple Java media player. After doing some research, and finding out […]
Create a GTK+ application on Linux with Objective-C
As sort of follow-up-in-spirit to my older post I decided to share a really straight forward way to use Objective-C to build GTK+ applications. Objective-what? […]
Setting up an Ubuntu-based ASP.NET Server with Mono
Introduction: In my day job, I work as an infrastructure developer for a small company. While I wouldn’t call us a Microsoft shop by any […]
Compile Windows programs on Linux
Windows?? *GASP!* Sometimes you just have to compile Windows programs from the comfort of your Linux install. This is a relatively simple process that basically […]
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 […]