Mostly about my amusement
As part of my ongoing home IT challenges I have set up a basement server running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. My normal method of managing my servers is to do everything by ssh. That’s geeky, but not much fun. So I looked for a free X server and came across Xming. It’s a not GPL’ed but… Read more Opensource is still the best
Ubuntu 9.10 is out, get it at http://www.ubuntu.com/. I’m planning on checking out UNR this weekend.
My Acer Aspire One netbook is good but the 8GB SSD drive that it shipped with is still the biggest drawback. When I want to view HQ or regular YouTube clip (forget about HD), the SSD gets accessed and performance takes a dive. Videos stutter and playback is horrible. After looking at the ApireOne community… Read more Ubuntu UNR 9.04 performance boost
Sometimes I post things to be able to recall 6 months later what I did. This is one of those “I’d better write this down” articles. After a couple of iterations, my Acer Aspire One Netbook runs well on Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04. Here’s what I did. I created one root 8 GB filesystem formatted… Read more Acer Aspire One UNR 9.04 settings
Tuxradar has a good review of Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04. I knew about maximus but I totally missed the part about virtual desktops being disabled.
The nice thing about my netbook is that I have no hesitation to wipe it clean and install a new OS on it. Which is what I did today after I downloaded Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04. It was released today and the instructions for installing off of a USB stick were very clear. It’s a… Read more Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04
After I returned my defective Dell MINI 9, I shopped around for a replacement. I found a better deal with the Acer Aspire One AOA110-1588 from J&R Music. It was on sale for $229.99 and had free shipping. From the product web page Intel Atom N270 1.6 GHz Processor 512 KB L2 Cache, 533 MHz… Read more Aspire One Netbook
For months my Xbox 360 has been complaining about the MTU being too small on my Internet gateway. This meant no updates and Xbox Live stopped working. I’ve been busy so I did not give it much thought. My brother Alek bought a new one for his apartment and hooked it up at my house. … Read more Dead Xbox 360 MTU issue
My upgrade from Ubuntu 6.06 LTS = FAIL. Last week I created a VPS on Slicehost. I’ve been using Tektonic for a while now and have no complaints. The support is very good and I can backup my VPS for when I need to. I’m using Slicehost because I don’t want both of my domain… Read more Upgrade of VPS from Ubuntu 6.06 LTS to 8.04 LTS
Over a week ago I complained about WordPress users crying security wolf and not being able to recover their blog when the “Bad Thing(tm)” happens. Since then a real brawl developed on the support forum that could be summed up like so: One or more users is insisting that there is an XMLRPC exploit in… Read more WordPress file monitoring