by Dennis Clayton | May 20, 2005 | General, Linux, Technology
I got SuSE 9.3 the other day and although it did install perfectly on two machines of questionable quality, it did not boot well the first time on either machine. Machine #1: An AMD Athlon 1800+, GigaByte Mobo, 256MB RAM, Nvidia MX something video card on my Samsung...
by Dennis Clayton | May 18, 2005 | Gadgets, General, Technology
This is a cool new device I saw on PalmOne’s website. This (or a future iteration) may be my next PDA. For those who demand more, palmOne introduces the all new LifeDrive? mobile manager. With a huge 4GB hard drive and built-in Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® wireless...
by Dennis Clayton | Apr 13, 2005 | Gadgets, General, Linux, Technology
I know this has been out for a while. But I would LOVE to get ahold of one. I have used a Mac in the past (The mostly forgotten G4 Mac Cube)… I loved it, but had major issues with the video card overheating and the Video bus stopped functioning as a result....
by Dennis Clayton | Mar 29, 2005 | General, Linux, Software, Technology
I have been a Linux user on and off for years, but only recently in the last 2 years have I been serious about it. Linspire (when it was Lindows), resparked my interest in Linux. I became an insider and started downloading the betas and testing them. I had a lot of...
by Dennis Clayton | Mar 25, 2005 | General, Linux, Software, Technology
I ended up settling on Ubuntu for my web server. I went back to the Warty 4.10 which is working great for this purpose so far. I had some problems getting Apache, MySQL, and PHP4 installed and communicating with each other. I opened Synaptic, and searched for Apache...
by Dennis Clayton | Mar 22, 2005 | Linux, Software, Technology
I downloaded last night MEPIS 3.3 Linux (1 CD, 685mb). 2 words:Very Impressive The install was not without some bugs though. The way it looks like MEPIS works is, you run the LiveCD version and once in there, you can install the OS in the GUI (KDE). I really liked...