Created by Ed Leach? on March 09, 2010, at 11:18 AM
Prices recently found for a 2 gig Sansa Clip:
Radio Shack - 49.99
Amazon - 34.44 (397 reviews!)
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Created by Ed Leach? on February 25, 2010, at 06:57 PM
Very neat hierarchical list:
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Created by Ed Leach? on February 25, 2010, at 05:54 PM
Chris taught me this some time ago to backup a full disk:
gzip < /dev/sda > mybackup.img.gz
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Created by Chris Cox on February 23, 2010, at 11:47 PM
"I think Solaris is way far advanced, and I love Linux, but I think Solaris is a more capable operating system," Ellison said. "I think Solaris' home is in the high-end of the data center, and it will be a long time before Linux catches up. I don't think the high end is in trouble at all."
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Created by Terry Henderson on February 17, 2010, at 11:38 AM
I finally decided to do the upgrade on my laptop and it turned out ok, but I found KDE-4.2.4 a little rough around the edges on this system, not bad but just a few things that were not working as well as it should. For one thing, the window decorations were intermittently skewed at the top. It may have had something to do with the upgrade procedure, I usually just backup /home and restore after a fresh install and I didn't do that this time. At any rate, I heard there were significant improvements in KDE-4.3 and since we can apparently go to 4.3.1 without having to upgrade to -current I thought I'd try it. The end result seems pretty nice, there are a number of improvements and new features, an overall cleaner and neater look and feel, I highly recommend KDE-4.3.1 and the upgrade is fairly easy.
Just do:
lftp -c 'open http://cardinal.lizella.net/~vbatts/kde/kde4-packages/4.3.1/x86/ ; mirror KDE-upgrade'
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Created by Terry Henderson on January 25, 2010, at 06:51 PM
The computer situation at my sister and her husband's place has evolved to the point that they both have their own PCs now and are connected to the internet via wireless router. (User names on these two computers are NOT same.)
The way I have it set up [after the second visit] is pretty good and fairly simple too.
The situation is this;
Candi's PC is in the living room and Tod's is in the office. The dhcp range is
from 192.168.6.100 - 192.168.6.150 and so I set Tod's PC to
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Created by Chris Cox on August 18, 2009, at 10:42 PM
(but were afraid to ask)
At the heart of almost any operating system is a filesystem. That is, a place to keep files containing data. To organize such files, most filesystems support the idea of a folder or directory and those are usually hierarchical, that is, one folder can contain other folders and so on.
Inside of Unix and Linux, files are very important. They not only serve as places for data and programs and such, but also serve as access points for devices and sometimes provide views and access into the deep recesses of the kernel itself!
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Created by Chris Cox on June 20, 2009, at 07:02 PM
According to Microsoft, everything you have heard about Linux is lie.... well, actually what Microsoft says is that you perceive incorrectly. Of course, when Microsoft says "Linux", they are actually referring to a Linux distribution and in particular (because Microsoft would like to isolate things as much as possible), Red Hat Enterprise Linux. 
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Created by Terry Henderson on October 25, 2008, at 09:35 AM
Bootable USB sticks are really catching on:
See:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/
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Created by Terry Henderson on August 26, 2008, at 08:28 AM
I tried billix out and works like a charm. It's easy to install and use.
Billix is a bootable linux OS that fits on a 256MB thumb drive, (it runs on DSL Linux).
On my first test run I was happy to see that it had no problems with the wireless NIC on my laptop and connected to the internet just fine.
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Created by Terry Henderson on June 27, 2008, at 09:17 AM
I recently upgraded a couple PCs from 7.10 to 8.04 "Hardy Heron". Even though the new release came out over two months ago, I ran the upgrades Wed Jun 18. I usually hold back on distribution upgrades so that the patches can catch up - not a real big fan of bugs - maybe this time I didn't wait long enough.
So, I just ran across a small piece of bleeding edge brokenness, even after a pretty extensive pile of critical patches [to "Hardy Heron"].
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Created by Terry Henderson on June 24, 2008, at 10:55 AM
...[for Ubuntu]
To see what kernel you're running now:
uname -a
(This will tell us which one NOT to remove.)
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Created by Terry Henderson on June 30, 2007, at 11:31 AM
Never would have guessed; udev would switch the NICs when I wasn't lookin'.
[To keep a long story long]:
I resurrected 2 computers for a friend / neighbor.
One had an Intel Celeron with a dead MB. So I dug up an old used replacement [Soyo SY-K7VTA] mainboard with an Athlon 1G and it was a pretty decent system [memory = 768M DDR RAM]. (Strictly a low budget operation.)
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Created by Chris Cox on May 02, 2007, at 06:50 PM
Linux, it's hard to use, it lacks proprietary Windows applications, it doesn't come pre-installed on the notebook I bought.... etc.
While one cannot deny these issues, here's some quick advice to help address the problem that Linux is just to hard to use: 
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Created by Terry Henderson on March 19, 2007, at 01:59 PM
Project: (350 Mhz Dell Latitude laptop, 128M RAM)
Replace 4.8G HD with 30G HD
Restore current Win2K on 4.8G /dev/hda1 partition
Create couple more more partitions for Linux
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Created by Chris Cox on January 02, 2007, at 03:37 PM
(part 1)
Seems that I'm hearing a lot of people and companies saying, "I'm going back to Windows." The obvious question is: Why?
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Created by Chris Cox on November 23, 2006, at 01:40 AM
Novell enters into a partnership with Microsoft. As a part of that partnership there
are some agreements that are made to protect the customer, both Novell's and
Microsoft's. The agreements are that Novell will covenant not to sue Microsoft
customers that might infringe on Novell's IP (patents) and that Microsoft will
covenant not to sue Novell (e.g. SUSE Enterprise) customers that might infringe on Microsoft's IP (patents). As a part of the partnership, Novell will receive payment from Microsoft for a fixed number of SUSE Enterprise licenses and Microsoft will use these as needed when a customer solution requires Linux. Thus SUSE Enterprise becomes Microsoft's choice of preferred Linux. However, Novell is not buying some number of fixed licenses of Microsoft product, but instead, will pay a percentage of the sale of SUSE Enterprise to Microsoft. And that's what has caused most of the problems with this partnership. A large scale migraine for Novell. Possibly life threatening.
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Created by Chris Cox on November 05, 2006, at 01:26 AM
As most of you know, Microsoft
and Novell have made a "deal" and have created a partnership which according to both
is designed to be good for the customer and build better integration between
Microsoft and Linux and between the concepts of
proprietary software and open source.
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Created by Chris Cox on November 01, 2006, at 03:06 PM
Just Testing. A popular phrase when people are making changes to system configurations and software, especially when the platforms are "live".
Even if you disagree with such cavalier testing, the point is to test. An advantage to the "release early and often" paradigm is that bugs can be discovered faster. The disadvantage is that you may cause things to go down... sometimes in a very, very bad way.
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