As I mentioned in the previous post I’m current installing Debian 40r3. So far I am pretty excited just by the installer alone. It has already detected all my hardware and configured my wireless card and that was all before it got to partitioning. In the partitioning, it actually had an option for Guided full [...]
I was watching my daughter today and decided to use my laptop in the kitchen to keep a better eye on her. I thought I would just enable Remote Desktop Access on my new desktop running Vista Home Premium and remote in. That’s when the shock began. The only thing available in Vista Basic is [...]
Well, I gave it a shot and I just couldn’t do it. Slackware’s install was familiar to me, but it has not really gone through much improvement since I last used it (8 years ago?).
The security was excellent – nothing turned on by default, and base configurations for anything that was already on. This leaves [...]
I found a really nice replacement for PuTTy which offers tabbed sessions in a single window, renaming of tabs, and color support for xterm, vt100, and kterm. It’s also open source! It’s called Poderosa (http://en.poderosa.org/). Grab it now!
I have never really been a fan of the computer mouse. It usually cramps my hand because of bad design and it generally distracts me from my primary tasks – command line administration, programming, etc. The only thing I really like the mouse for is gaming and I think there’s a better way but it [...]
