A couple of weeks ago, an old friend and I began to discuss bootable Linux USB flash drives — as opposed to bootable Linux LiveCDs.
I was motivated by the fact that I’m down to my last few writable CDs.
Plus, I have a 256MB USB flash drive that is too small to use for much of anything else.
But, in the past, every time I’ve [more...]
The other day, I downloaded the current Debian Squeeze (Stable) 6.0.2.1 Xfce+LXDE installation CD and installed its default Xfce choice from scratch onto a brand new ext4 hard drive partition of my existing Debian Wheezy PC.
Afterward, I added a few additional packages from the Debian Squeze repositories, including the Synapic GUI package manager and DesktopNova, my favorite automatic desktop wallpaper changer.
Then, in DesktopNova’s settings, I [more...]
In the beginning, only large, powerful corporations owned computers.
And they completely controlled their employees’ access to both computing power and the data that was created.
Then came the “PC Revolution” in the 1970s.
Suddenly, individuals could [more...]
Many years ago, Web pages were static.
Words and images.
And hyperlinks.
Simple displays of information.
Then someone thought, [more...]
Regular readers of this Journal know that I became a full-time Linux user (instead of Windows) on my home-office computers back in July of 2006.
In the past 5 years, my Linux computers have all been completely virus, spyware and malware-free, despite the tact that none of them run any antivirus, malware, spyware or firewall software.
In fact, I’ve rarely ever had to do any [more...]
I’ve been using personal computers since 1979.
I began by using CP/M, MS-DOS, Apple DOS, and other text-based operating systems on computers with monochrome displays, then moved on to the original black-and-white version of the Macintosh OS and the original version of Microsoft Windows.
I used to use computers with only 8KB of RAM; or two [more...]
His employer’s calendar software didn’t meet his department’s needs.
So he bought his own server.
And installed BSD on it.
Along with the calendar software that he wanted.
After he connected it to his employer’s network, [more...]
It comes every year.
Though sometimes, it seems like it comes more often.
April 15 is the yearly deadline for U.S. taxpayers to file their yearly federal — and state, if required — income taxes.
It’s been so many years that [more...]