Thursday, October 4th, 2007
For months now, I've been claiming that I was going to purge all instances of Microsoft Windows from my home network. This initiative began last year with dumping Windows XP on my workstation for Ubuntu 7.04 and then getting rid of my Windows XP Media Center Edition PC in my ...
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
Tonight I installed Beryl on my workstation at home. Beryl is, according to their site, "a combined window manager and composite manager written in C using OpenGL to provide acceleration." Translation: It makes the Linux desktop look KICK-ASS. There are probably many 3D goodies that I haven't yet seen in ...
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Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Up until just recently, I've always flirted with the idea of permanently running a non-Windows OS on my main workstation at home but have been reluctant to make the move for two main reasons:
I have a Windows Mobile SmartPhone. All of my personal mail, contacts, tasks, and calendar entries reside ...
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Friday, February 10th, 2006
So I decided to get frisky and give something besides Debian a try on my Linux box at home. Due to the allegiance that a lot of my co-workers (past and present) have for Gentoo, I picked it. I will say that its software retrieval and installation utility, emerge, is ...
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Friday, October 21st, 2005
After about a day and a half of laboring over the task of creating an encrypted filesystem that could be read and written to by both Linux and Windows, I decided to document in the form of a how-to guide my eventual route to success. I would have thought that ...
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