Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category
Monday, November 24th, 2008
Yesterday I announced that I had had enough of Windows and the fact that in my effort to re-install a seriously hosed copy, it managed to nuke the partition table on my 250GB hard drive, taking all of the contents with it.
I had an install of Debian a couple years ...
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Researchers at Perth's Edith Cowan University working with partnership with the Western Australia Police have come up with a tool that they're beta testing that they describe as a "random breath test". It's purpose is to scan computers for illicit images of the sort that won't ever appear on ...
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
The OS wars continue. Microsoft thought they had a killer OS in Vista only to find out that tens of thousands (myself included) hate it. Ubuntu has recently released version 8.10, nicknamed "Intrepid Ibex" (no, I don't know what an Ibex is let alone an intrepid one). ...
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
Good news for Linux users, According to a recent Slashdot article, Sun Microsystems is finally moving on a decision to open-source Java.
Once it's done and released, this will clear the way for Open source linux distributions like Debian to be able to include Sun Java in their distributions.
Apparently Sun has ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
This is just too funny for words. I just saw a bit on slashdot about how Micro$oft is now dissing it's own stuff. Specifically, they're making a big point now of talking XP down and Vista up. This PC World story talks about Micro$oft commissioning a study ...
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
I've managed to create an interesting "situation" in a recent attempt to create a dual boot setup with xp and Debian. The hardware:
ide0, 250 gb seagate pri master
ide1, 13 gb maxtor pri slave
What I wanted to do was have xp on ide0 and debian on ide1, then use the ...
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