My Linux laptop was murdered today. Video now consists of a black screen with several white horizontal lines. I am fairly confident that the boy-child is the culprit. Grrrr. I’d be more annoyed, but I am currently preoccupied with a shower faucet that has decided to turn into a fountain. [...]
There are days when I really do not like Linux at all. Yesterday, after upgrading Firefox and a few other packages, was one of those days. My flash plugin, which I had managed to get working with sound a few weeks ago, was once again hosed after upgrading. Sure, I can see [...]
Convert to Linux, or the terrorists will have won!
I thought my Linux system was supposed to be reliable! I’ve been unable to blog for the past week or two because I haven’t been able to boot my system. Until this morning, it just hung while setting up networking. Maybe it’s all those experimental packages I installed . . .
. . . and Gentoo Linux still doesn’t play nice with my VIA 8237 SATA controller. I was really hoping for some improvement in the past six months. Sure, there are supposed to be ways to work around this, but none that are guaranteed to work or have worked so far. I [...]
Hello. You don’t know me, but you probably know of me. I am a Linux user. I’ve read “Running Linux” “Linux Network Administrator’s Guide”, subscribe to Linux Journal and have at one point or another tried almost every flavor of Linux out there. I think my first distribution was Caldera OpenLinux 1.0, [...]
