I’m an old-school horsepower junkie. Brute acceleration when I push down on a gas pedal, monster trucks, and triple-engine-blown alcohol tractor pulling all rank way up there in the cool department, as far as I’m concerned. Oddly, I have the same addiction with laptop hardware. My four year old AMD 64-bit HP Pavilion laptop threw […]
My new ASUS X83-VM laptop has a very capable, whisper-quiet 320 GB SATA drive. For some jobs, like storing my photos, that disk simply isn’t big enough. It was time to look at external USB media options. Good thing the new machine has five USB 2.0 ports. After successfully installing Kubuntu (kernel version: 2.6.27-11-generic, 64-bit), […]
Do you realize how much value is packed into each and every distribution of Linux? Nothing short of phenomenal. A Linux machine can help you solve problems that simply are too time consuming, complex, or expensive to solve with other operating systems. All you have to do is add your own special ingredient. We’ll review […]
Live Linux CDs are popping up all over the place. Mainstream distributions like SimplyMEPIS let you try before you install, as does Ubuntu and Linspire. There are also specialized distributions like Knoppix and Dynebolic. One Gentoo Linux-based distribution, called Sectoo, might also warrant a “live” look. Anthony Rousseau, a native of France, created Sectoo so […]
Network-centric services are connecting users to some truly valuable data. For the price of a computer, a network connection, and a browser, you can find information on just about anything. Punch a few keywords into a search engine and out spits a wealth of valuable content about Linux, some obscure song, or even current tractor […]
Spam seems to have no bounds. Most people set up some type of filter to weed out the bad email from the good. That approach, has its limitations. For example, each installation requires ongoing maintenance, like keeping blacklists current, in order to operate effectively. False positives can keep legitimate messages from reaching their intended recipients. […]
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