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| Decisions, decisions, decisions | Cyber Chatter | |
| What’s the best Linux distro for you? That really depends on personal preference and hardware. While the first might be the most desirable way to choose, in reality, it is the second that will narrow choices down at times. For example, my 2-year-old HP Pavilion laptop really seems to dislike Ubuntu (Karmic)and won’t get past [...] | ||
| Replacing Windows Apps | Tech Talk | |
| OK, I’m a geek and I freely admit it, but there’s something very pleasant about finding replacements for some of those applications that are commonly used in Windows with an open source alternative. Back in the earliest days of my PC experience, I had very little money to spend on anything, much less high-end software [...] | ||
| Success - and now for the next step… | Tech Talk | |
| Since the install of Mandriva 2010 went so well on the laptop, I’ve now changed over this desktop as well. I had originally thought about keeping the Fedora install, but decided to migrate the data off the drive and remove Fedora entirely. Though Fedora always behaved fairly well, there were some features from Mandriva that [...] | ||
| New Mandriva Distro | Tech Talk | |
| I’m in the process of installing the latest version of Mandriva to my HP laptop as a dual boot with Vista, so this should be interesting. If all goes well, I may install it as a secondary distro on this workstation as well (which currently has Fedora 11 running). So far, so good. The installer [...] | ||
| Today’s Toy | Tech Talk | |
| This is actually a re-working of an old site design I did several years, updated to take advantage of new technology. Though I am still working on the DevTime site, feel free to drop in and browse around. On of the goals of the site is to show that content-managed sites can have nice looking [...] | ||
| Some new themes | Tech Talk | |
| I’ve been taking the time this week to work on some new Xoops themes. Here’s my new favorite: The theme below was done earlier in the week. I have no idea what it might be used for but I learned a lot about opacity in the process of building it. |
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