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Google Chrome OS and Ubuntu
Google made and announcement that Google Chrome OS will be entirely open source. In addition, they announced that the Chrome browser will be available shortly.The fact that Chrome OS will be entirely open source is great news because this should a...
Default Ubuntu 10.04 Dropping GIMP
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Lucid Lynx will drop GIMP from the default install to make more room on the ISO. GIMP is one of my favorite applications, and I use it quite often. But for me, Its not a big deal that it is not going to be included in the default ...
Google Chrome for Linux
I have been using Google Chrome for a couple of weeks on a Windows XP machine and have found it to be one of the better browsers that I have come across. I like it because it is simple, yet very functional. Chrome also seems to run faster than eith...
Ubuntu Backup
There are a number of tools in Ubuntu that you can use to backup your Linux system. In Ubuntu 9.10, when you open the Software Center and type "backup" in the search bar, you are presented with a load of choices. To be honest, I do not know which ...
Say Goodbye to McAfee, FOREVER!
Since I work in the IT business, I get the following questions on an almost daily basis:"What virus software would you recommend for my home computer?"Now I know exactly how the weather guy feels when they get asked: "What's the weather going to be...
Ubuntu on a Laptop and Wireless Internet
One of the most frustrating things about running Ubuntu, or for that matter, any Linux based operating system on an older laptop is the fact that many wireless cards simply will not work.This is because many of the companies that make these cards th...
Ubuntu Linux Google Chrome
I still have a laptop that my wife uses that has Windows XP. She needs it for some online classes that she is using. I decided to give Google Chrome a try so I went ahead and installed it on her laptop. I liked what I saw. Chrome is a new browse...
CentOS, Java, and RPM Hell
I was trying to use a Java application within my web browser on a CentOS box I set up, and was a little disappointed to see that the folks over at Redhat still have not figured out how to make the act of simply surfing the Internet with a PC using Li...
PC Equals Windows. NOT!
We have all seen them. The Mac vs. PC ads that Apple uses for their main advertising campaign. Apple has poured millions into the ad campaign, and why not? It has been hugely successful for them and the commercials are funny.The Mac ads mock Micros...
Ubuntu Setting Its Sights on College Students?
I has been a little while since I visited the Ubuntu website. Usually, I make a visit or two once or twice a month, but sine Ubuntu 8.10 was released, I have just been having fun using my recycled and old PC to some productive work. Plus, I am thin...
Christmas Music on Ubuntu Rhythmbox
I have been learning to use Rythmbox's Radio Station a little more, and found that it is pretty easy to get all of Sky.fm's radio station feeds integrated with Rhythmbox. I added the Christmas Music stream offered by Sky.fm and it was very easy to d...
Running Linux on a Slow Computer
I use a pretty old computer to keep this blog up to date. Some of you may be surprised to hear that it is a Dell L667r sporting a 667 Mhz processor with 320 MB of RAM. Yep, that's it! Everything works great on this old beast. The only 'upgrade' I...
Agent.BTZ Virus infecting Military Computers
Another virus is making headlines, and it is being passed around the old fashioned way with the modern day equivalent of floppy drives. I remember years ago there was a lot of hand wringing by "security experts" about floppy disks. Back then, virus...
Speed Up Ubuntu Boot Time
Here is a simple way to speed up the boot time of your Ubuntu system. It involves recreating the readahead profile. Readahead is a daemon that runs in Ubuntu that loads a set if files into page cache that accelerates the first time of loading of pr...
Partition and MBR Restore Using TestDisk
After a little poking around with my Windoze PC, the one that would not boot, I decided that either the partition table, or the Master Boot Record (MBR) were somehow corrupted. The machine would boot using other disk drives, so the motherboard was ...
Using Ubuntu to Recover Data from an XP Drive
I have several PCs in my house. One of them, a Microsoft Windows XP stopped booting for me. I was not sure if the motherboard went bad or the disk drive. This PC had a lot of files on it that were important for my wife and her on line studies. Un...
Ubuntu vs. Centos
I have been using Ubuntu at home for my desktop, while at work, it has mainly been Redhat.In recent years, we have not had to build systems at our site, since they were sent to us pre-loaded with the OS, or we just install a CD, run a script, and the...
Ubuntu Everyday PC
This is going to be a diary about my daily use of the Ubuntu Operating system as my main household PC. Actually, I am running it on several of my machines, plus a version called xubuntu on one of my older boxes. Since Ubuntu 8.10 is due to be releas...
