Wednesday, 5. August 2009
Why do I even try…
As my dad used to say, “Sometimes, the Dragon, he wins…”. For quite a while now, I have been on a mission to try to move my wife over to Open Office. She is a devoted Microsoft user, and runs the only jointly owned PC that has Windows as it’s primary operating system. Now, I’m not a totally anti-Microsoft, and I do believe that a person has the right to use whatever software they like, and are willing to properly license. But I really have a problem with paying for any software license when an equivalent Open Source option is available. I can’t seem to get through to my lovely wife, that Open Office will do all the things she uses MS Office for. The really sad thing, is she won’t even try Open Office. She gets mad if it’s on her PC! And when I ask her why she is against using it, she has the following reasons:
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Monday, 3. August 2009
Firefox Web Browser enjoys it’s 1 Billionth download.
Wow, who would have thought that an open source project could do so well against the big “M”. Experts are saying that Firefox now has 32% of the browser market. This is probably the net result of all those crap plugins and the rest of the shoddy code that Micro$oft has been dumping on to the Internet these last 15 years. Looks like people are finally getting wise, at least when it comes to browsing…
Maybe this is a sign that the end user is starting to get it. Maybe Open Office, with it’s safer interface to the network, and it’s open standard file format will make a play for the end user desktop… Or maybe not…
Regardless, with this news, we can all say that open source has made a difference in a lot of peoples lives, and will continue to do so for a long time to come!
Congratulations Mozilla developers, you’ve done good!
— Stu
Friday, 31. July 2009
Where is the Autostart folder?
Looks like yet another change in KDE that messes with 3.5 users… Seems someone decided that the Autostart folder was a bad idea. This after having the Autostart folder in every KDE release I can remember.
Well, it seems that KDE 4 has adopted the same type of startup program control that Gnome has used for years.
A quick example.
Ok, let’s say that you want to start, oh I don’t know… Let’s say you want to start Krellm at login. here are the steps:
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Monday, 20. July 2009
Notes From My KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) Talk.
First of all, thanks to all who attended the SCLug meeting on Saturday. I had fun talking with everyone there.
I wanted to follow up with some written examples of the KVM command lines I demonstrated at the meeting. I know I seemed to go over this stuff kind of fast, so I wanted to elaborate a bit in text.
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Wednesday, 15. July 2009
With hotter temperatures, your electronics are at higher risk of failure. Are you backed up?
If you’ve been around electronics for any period of time, you know that as the weather gets hotter, equipment failure rates also climb. With the increased use of digital cameras and digital video, as well as all the other information we store on our digital devices, the failure of any electronic device could result in information loss.
Here are some quick tips that might save you from having to deal with data loss. Let’s just call them words to live by in a digital world.
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Friday, 10. July 2009
Is the Linux desktop ready for prime time?
Well , that depends what you are looking for. My idea of a desktop might be a bit different from yours, and your idea might not mesh with your friends, or family. But if you are an average user, here are some things for you to think about.
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