There is a windows nuisance which seems to be getting nearer crisis point. These are overheads, or if you like computer maintenance, which comprises of several wasteful mechanisms which sap you computer productivity, speed, responsiveness and your personal time. What I’m talking about is everything on your system that isn’t core to your service. There’s [...]
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Kubuntu 9.10
I upgraded to this new version of Linux and I’m posting from it right now but this was not a smooth process. I used the GUI updater (from 9.04) and it failed at 99% downloads. Restarted it after a reboot and it worked this time. I have no idea what happened. To add insult to [...]
Windows 7 Available
Naturally, with the release of Windows 7 into the public arena on Thursday, there’s been a lot of talk about Windows 7 amongst my linux and gaming focused friends. From all the information I have Windows 7 is architecturally Windows Vista but has been polished very well and most of the rather serious annoyances relating [...]
Wine Basics
If you really want to get the most out of wine this article is for you. Here I show you my experience in getting more games to work under wine and the general pattern of how it all works. A basic knowledge of the command line interface (CLI) really helps. Try this tutorial if you [...]
Microsoft sues TomTom
If you’re powerful and losing market share because you can’t innovate, litigate. Microsoft have decided to attack TomTom who are a European-based GPS provider. But the attack is also a proxy assault on Linux which TomTom uses in their product. Keep an eye on this one as it goes through the courts.
Easy Wine
For those of you who are new to Linux, and the dreaded command line (CLI) in particular, you can use wine in the try and pray mode. As I’ve said before around ¼ of games will work like that. However to get a higher success rate and an easier installation process you should consider using [...]
Wine 1.1.14
I’m going to introduce WINE which is all about running Windows based applications on Linux and other operating systems, such as the Mac. WINE is open source. The ability to use Windows based applications is very useful for many Linux users. For new users this mitigates the learning curve of so many new applications at [...]
DOSBox 0.72
Dosbox is an MS-DOS emulator for Linux, the Mac, Windows and quite a few other operating systems. It lets you run older MS-DOS based applications, games and other MS-DOS compatible software. If you don’t know what MS-DOS is, thank your lucky stars and know the rest of this will probably be worthless to you. One [...]
The Ark Noah Left to Rot
Though I enjoy Linux and generally think well of it there are times when one shakes the head and wonders what the hell people are doing. So this is going to be a Linux bashing review, or more specifically Ark bashing. Ark is the default archive managing program for the KDE desktop. Meaning it makes [...]
Disk Failure and More RAM
Computers. Those time saving miracle machines….. sometimes I think computers conspire to waste our time. I had a problem with transferring lots of files making linux non responsive. A crashed linux doesn’t happen often and this was happening most times I attempted the transfer. Eventually I eliminated the windows ntfs drive, linux and the file [...]
Digikam
To post the lego harvester I used Digikam which is part of the KDE default desktop on kubuntu (KDE often use ‘k’ in their software names) and so far it’s one of the best pieces of linux software I’ve used. I used a somewhat old Canon Powershot A70 to take the pictures which is an [...]
Trying out KDE 4.1.2 as Kubuntu
One of the advantages of linux is there are a number of desktop environments to choose from whereas the Mac or Windows only gives one. I’ve been using Ubuntu (32bit) for a while as a basic user dual-booted with Vista (64 bit). I mainly use Vista for gaming and Ubuntu for everything else and that [...]
Software Freedom Day
Software Freedom Day (SFD08) is a world wide event promoting Free and Open Source Software to families and businesses. It’s held each year and this year is on Saturday 20 September 2008. There are many small localised events all across the world organised for that day. My local Linux User group is doing one of [...]