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 […]
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PulseAudio: Monitoring your Line-In Interface
At home, my setup consists of three machines -Â a laptop, a PC, and an XBOX 360. The latter two share a set of speakers, […]
Big distributions, little RAM 2
As a follow up to my previous post I have decided to re-run the tests, this time with the updated distributions (where available of course). […]
Accessing Windows 7 Shares from Ubuntu is a Pain
This blog post is about my experiences. If you hit this page from a search engine looking to fix this issue click here to skip […]
Fix ATI vsync & video tearing issue once and for all!
NOTE: ATI’s most recent drivers now include a no tearing option in the driver control panel. Enabling it there is now the preferred method. Two […]
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 […]
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 […]
Big distributions, little RAM
As you know I am currently running OpenSUSE 11.2 on my laptop. While I have enjoyed my time using it, I have noticed that this […]
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 […]
A Practical Reference of Linux Commands
Just wanted to share a link to a great table that I found – the practical reference of linux commands is a handy little table […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pulse Audio Nonsense
Just a heads up: This isn’t the kind of post that contains answers to your problems. It is, unfortunately, the kind of post that contains […]
Finally Synching my Blackberry on Linux
Some readers may recall all of the attempts that I’ve made in the past to synchronize my Blackberry with Mozilla’s Thunderbird email and calendar client. […]
Filling a Zune from Linux
Thinking that I was up for a challenge, I decided to spend the day figuring out how to put the music in my Banshee library […]
The end of the long road
Well it’s official, the year is now 2010 and we still don’t have flying cars. The End 2010 also marks the end of The Linux […]
Setting up an LVM for Storage
Recently, I installed Kubuntu on my PC. Under Windows, I had used RAID1 array to create a storage volume out of two extra 500GB hard […]
XBMC Camelot
In my daily RSS feeds I read about the release of the newest version of XBMC, formally the Xbox Media Center, so I decided to […]
Linux Saves the Day
Earlier this week I had an experience where using Linux got me out of trouble in a relatively quick and easy manner. The catch? It […]