October 24th, 2009 at 10:47 am » Comments (2)

In October 2008 I found blog posts on how I might get wireless working on my laptop that has an Atheros AR242x card. A third party driver form madwifi had ...more »

October 21st, 2009 at 2:58 pm » Comments (5)

I have not had a landline telephone for over five years. Five years ago I was very poor and the luxury of two phone services was not affordable. The cell ...more »

October 20th, 2009 at 2:49 pm » Comments (0)

The holiday season is approaching. For several weeks Kim Komando will air her annual radio contest. I have no doubt that due to Microsoft's generosity, she will have several copies ...more »

October 15th, 2009 at 3:25 pm » Comments (0)

The default bittorrent client in Ubuntu is Transmission. Some will argue that Deluge is a better choice. Quite some time ago I tried both and decided on Deluge. It seemed ...more »

October 6th, 2009 at 3:18 pm » Comments (1)

I have read numerous posts in other blogs advising Linux 'newbies' to install install Ubuntu as their first Linux distribution. The reasons are many, including that it installs (and uninstalls) ...more »