What is Linux?

I like reading the news. I do. You can say I am a news junkie. Not only politics, but technews, sportnews, science, you name it, I read it. My blogroll is full of tech related feeds. So I was surprised to read the following piece about SCO: SCO To [...]

Tellas

No, it’s not a mythical Greek monster or literary creation, but my isp. And since yesterday, the hostof John’s Rented Corner in Cyberspace. Apparently, portland communications either have troubles or have removed their free hosting service (available at port5.com). While I shop for a more permanent spot in cyberspace, please take the [...]

Dapper rulez!

Yes, I know just a few hours ago I was complaining about the work I had to do in setting up dapper drake 6.06 LTS. I am happy to say that everything works fine now.
My box (where I am blogging this posting) is an old but reliable one:QDI 9 mobo,PIII @ 800 MHz256 MB RAM2×40 [...]

Dapper snafu

Having some time to spend, I decided to upgrade my old home box to the newer ubuntu 6.06 lts (aka dapper drake). I have been a happy ubuntu user for some time now and I really feel that ubuntu is a wonderful collective effort.
My setup is rather old but trustworthy. It installed the [...]

Monemvasia by picasa

On an amd64 box, no less
Since picasa was made available for linux i386 distros, I was one of the many who took advantage and installed it. I also found out that picasa works wonderfully even when running in a amd64 environment.
As I have outlined in an earlier posting, amd64 users could easily [...]

Tuesday June Sixth

Or, since numbers are more elegant in detailing the unique points of our view(s), today’s date is 06/06/06. Tuesday, June 6th or the 6th of June or simply 06/06/06.
Unlike, an earlier posting in this blog which could have been interpreted differently based on one’s location on the globe and one’s reading of the calendar, Tuesday’s [...]