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Dawn Of The Post PC Era
March 22nd, 2011 at 9:18 pm » Comments (0)
I am starting to see ads for the forthcoming Microsoft tablet that will run a version of Windows 7. Of course this is no surprise to anyone. What does surprise ...more »Au Revoir iTunes
February 15th, 2011 at 10:38 pm » Comments (0)
I would have liked to entitled this post R.I.P. iTunes but I really do love my iPad and intend to keep it for awhile despite the horde of competing Linux ...more »Just Another Linux User
September 6th, 2010 at 4:24 pm » Comments (0)
My regular readers have undoubtedly notice a "hiatus" in my posting of articles. Let me explain, as this will introduce today's Linux discussion. A death in my family (my mother) resulted ...more »Karmic To Lucid – A Few Bumps
May 25th, 2010 at 9:12 pm » Comments (3)
After my horrible experience upgrading from Jaunty to Karmic (I skipped Intrepid) I swore I would never again be an early adopter of an Ubuntu release. I had intended to ...more »Lucid Lynx – A Wild Cat
March 25th, 2010 at 10:14 am » Comments (0)
There seems to be some controversy over Canonical's decision to move the windows contol buttons from the right side to the left side of the screen in the next release ...more »How To Have A Personal Server In The Cloud
March 16th, 2010 at 3:11 pm » Comments (0)
Last September I posted an article about Money Manager Ex. At the time of the post the devolper, Codelathe, promised a "cloud based" version of this great application. They have ...more »A Windows Dilemma And How You Might Avoid It
February 25th, 2010 at 4:16 pm » Comments (1)
A few days ago a customer dropped off a desktop computer that would not boot. It was a Compaq model about three years old and, according to the stickers, it ...more »Sync Files Between Your iPhone/Touch And Linux PC
February 10th, 2010 at 4:06 pm » Comments (0)
Sadly, Apple has chosen to keep the iPhone/Touch devices 'closed' which hinders file transfer to and from the device. In fact, they have ordered the removal of USB file transfer ...more »To Tweak or Not to Tweak?
January 11th, 2010 at 2:41 pm » Comments (0)
Ubuntu-tweak has been upgraded to version .5x. A deb installer can be found here. Similarily, a deb installer for ailurus can be found here. These two applications are similar in ...more »How To Boost Volume in an AVI File (Karmic)
December 31st, 2009 at 3:07 pm » Comments (0)
In the good old days of Jaunty, Ubuntu had an asound.conf file that could be patched to increase the range of audio volume. This is no longer supported in Karmic. ...more »Blogroll
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