Living with Linux on the Desktop.
I had to get some kind of virtualization going in order to run a Windows application the other day. I’m most familiar with VMWare Server, so I decided to install that.
Turns out, the guys at VMWare Inc. had released a new revision of VMWare Server (2.0!). I only had previous experience the 1.x series, but [...]
This has only happened to me once, and only when connecting my Sansa Clip 1GB via USB. On the other hand, I don’t often connect the Sansa Clip so it could be a common problem for some. I’m running the Asus P5K-VM motherboard (Intel G33/ICH9).
Basically, after connecting and connecting the device a few times, I [...]
Mechwarrior 2 is one of my favorite games of all time, so tonight I sat down and spent the time to get it running again on my current operating system of choice (Kubuntu 8.04). Here are (what I hope are) easy-to-follow instructions that should let you do what I did. This should work with the [...]
Just FYI for Kubuntu 8.04 users who might be thinking about running Compiz Fusion on their ‘work’ machines. I have tried it twice, and while Hardy Heron has made it very easy to enable ‘3d effects’ on the desktop, there are still major bugs that will probably crash your X server at some point. I’m [...]
I like to leave my computer on 24/7. Having an ‘uptime’ of months is a matter of personal satisfaction for me, and is really one of the reasons I like Linux - if something goes wrong you can usually fix it without restarting. Today I encountered a problem that a user with a normal usage [...]
I’ve had some problems with Adobe Flash ever since I upgraded to Kubuntu Hardy Heron. Flash applets would come up in firefox as just a grey box sometimes. Sometimes I would come back to a previously-opened browser tab to find a Flash applet turned from a working video player (or whatever) to a [...]
Today I received my DAC707 SuperPro digital to analog audio converter from Audio Magus. I recently helped a friend set up his similar machine to use one of these devices. It sounded really nice so I decided I should have one for myself. It also frees me from having more junk in my PC as [...]