(Yes, there are such things. But they are fewer in number than Windows annoyances ( Read more... )

After using Ubuntu Linux on one desktop and two laptops for several months, I find that I can do most of eveything I need to do in Ubuntu. Three notable exceptions I've found so far ( Read more... )

This past month, I've used Ubuntu Linux almost exclusively. There have only been a few times where I've needed to use Windows or Windows-based apps. One was to download some videos from YouTube.* Another was to rip a CD ( Read more... )

Three months ago, a member of my church gave me a Gateway MA3 laptop that needed fixing. The connection to the power supply was broken, or appeared to be broken. I couldn't fix it; I couldn't get the plastic cover off. I took it to the local laptop repair place and they said that this was a common problem with that model, and that it would take ( Read more... )

I've been doing a fair amount of Linux work in the past few days, both at home and at a volunteer organization I belong to ( Read more... )

One of the things I can do with my laptop is to set up what's called a LAMP server -- Linux OS, Apache web server, MySQL database, and Perl scripting language. I'd like to do this for the practical experience. Other than these 4 items, are there any other components which I should install under Linux? (I'm running Ubuntu 8.04.2 on the laptop.)

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Some time ago, I installed Ubuntu Linux 7.10 on my laptop computer, with the intention of eventually replacing Windows as its principal operating system. I ran into two hurdles: neither the modem card or my wireless card would work with Ubuntu. I've since upgraded to 8.04, but that's as far as I went with it ( Read more... )

After being unable to use the modem and network cards with my "new" laptop (a Dell Latitude CPx), I thought I wouldn't be able to successfully run Linux on a notebook or laptop computer. (To recap the problems I was having, I couldn't connect to the internet using either a PCMCIA modem card or wireless network card ( Read more... )

I just noticed that the post I made a few hours ago is dated March 19, 4:50pm -- the time and date of the system clock at the time I posted. That obviously wasn't right, and it's been fixed ( Read more... )

I'm posting this from the new laptop, on which I installed Ubuntu Linux 7.10. I still haven't figured out how to get the PCMCIA modem to work. But they were throwing out a USRobotics Sportster 33.6 FAxmodem at work. And so I thought about using it for the interim. A little twiddling with wvdial, and editing the configuration file, and I'm ( Read more... )