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Per John [...]
This is just a quick post to say that I am really impressed with Ubuntu 7.10. I’ve been running Debian Sid on my laptop for the past 4 months. Although I’m running 7.10 on my old bed-ridden laptop and on my dual-boot desktop, I haven’t really spent the time to play with it. [...]
Well, I made the plunge. I wiped my hard drive clean last night, and installed Foresight to bare metal. Why not a VM like originally planned? I don’t know what the issues were, but KVM was sloooooooooow. Reading up on all the support questions, docs, wiki’s and sites I could find, [...]
This may or may not be interesting to any of you, but I’m writing about it at any event. Earlier today, I was browsing around Distrowatch.com, and I came across the FAQ. The 2nd to last question in the FAQ is as follows:
You list so many distributions. Which one do you use:
In [...]
Frankly, I can’t believe that 2007 is ending, and 2008 is just around the corner. It seemed like just yesterday that we had the Y2K scare that was the end-all of humanity as we knew it. 8 years later, computing has reached new heights, technology has soared, and Linux still remains a viable [...]
Lately, I’ve had on my mind the desire to run different operating systems, other than Debian and Ubuntu. I’ve always had this weird interest in operating systems, so when I discovered Unix and Linux, it intrigued me to run them on my own system. Unix never went far, as the only “distro” I [...]
Dear Lazyweb-
On my 64-bit Debian systems, and my Ubuntu systems, as root, the command ‘lastb’ is returning nothing. Lastb should return all failed login attempts to STDOUT. In order to do so, it needs to read the /var/log/btmp file. Upon examination of this file, it is empty. This puzzles me, as [...]
/BUGS
BUGS
None. Mutts have fleas, not bugs.
FLEAS
Suspend/resume while editing a file with an external editor does not work under SunOS 4.x if you use the curses lib in /usr/5lib. It does work with the S-Lang [...]
One of the big advantages of typing in the Dvorak layout is the comfort that comes with it. It is estimated that you spend nearly 70% of your time typing on the home row, with only 30% of your time stretching for letters off of the home row. If that’s the case, then [...]
Yesterday, I acquired a Sun Microsystems UltraSparc 10. What was the first thing I did? Put Linux on it of course. Debian Etch was the ultimate decision. Why not Ubuntu? I already have Dapper Drake powering my main server, so I thought I’d give Etch a try as a [...]
We just had 4 new teams go up to the CC in their IRC meeting for approval, and all 4 teams were approved. They are:
Georgia
Michigan
New Jersey
New Mexico
Congratulations all 4 teams!
What does this mean? It means that 4 Ubuntu LoCo teams have become recognized by the Ubuntu Community Council to receive some special incentives. [...]
This has been discussed a bit lately, and I thought I would throw in my two cents. Why would you want to run 64-bit versus 32-bit on your personal computer? Simple, your 32-bit operating system contains a ticking time bomb (no pun intended) that could likely explode causing problems for you creating headaches.
It [...]
I need to get this down in a post as the energy from it is just exciting.
When Christer went to UDS, he came back with a wealth of information, and shared it with the project showing us how we could improve Ubuntu as LoCo teams from many differing angles. The result, I think, is [...]
I was browsing around my company’s internal wiki while looking for some teaching aids on teaching the Red Hat RH033 course this week and next. While there, I found this fun little gem (provided by Joseph Hall):
When teaching file permissions, create a directory called ‘base’ and in that directory a number of base? files:
aaron@kratos:~$ [...]
With the recent news of my wife and I receiving a baby (she’s due any moment now), my wife will be quitting her full-time job as a 2nd grade school teacher come June of 2008. This means a lot of changes in our lives (income adjustments, responsibilities, etc), but most importantly, it means that [...]
