Its no secret that Apple keeps its products held very closely in attempt to lock users in their own walled-garden. While most people seem more than happy to lock themselves down, most Linux users are disgusted by Apple’s practices but still own an Apple device for some reason or another.
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Since then, I’ve used Linux at work and at home in a wide variety array of devices. Even today, now that I’m older and never have enough time for fiddling around with software constantly, I have Linux in my car, as an mp3 player. Any Empeg Rio Car users out there? With no DRM, Linux [...]
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Recently I blogged about Plat’Home’s “Will Linux Work?” Challenge, where Plat’home challenged people to come up with the most bizarre and harsh conditions for their palm-size servers to work. The winner will get 5 servers to test his/her idea! Almost one month has passed, so what extreme ideas did the Internet muster? Like a Phoenix [...]
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I previously did a review of the multi-purpose Plat’home palm-size Linux server. Plat’home claims that their servers can operate in very harsh and rigid environments. They can guarantee that this little critter can operate in tempratures up to 50°C/122°F! But Plat’home is not just going to talk the talk, they are totally willing to walk [...]
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Could hardware vendors be deliberately blocking and sabotaging Linux? What would their incentive or motivation be? One would think that would be just stupid, since no matter how small the Linux market is, at the end of the day there will be money exchanging hands. Why would a company say no to paying customers? In [...]
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Exactly 2 hours and 47 minutes ago, my mom wanted to print something quickly from our HP Photosmart c3100 printer. So she hooked up her Vaio, but it started complaining about drivers. She started to panic, and asked me for help. I calmed her down, and navigated to the HP site to find the printer’s [...]
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Ok let’s face it, torrenting isn’t really the most user friendly technology out there. There are so many ins and outs in torrenting that would lead your average Joe to scurry away. You know the kind of a guy who gets Rickrolled, gets confused, and moves on not knowing what exactly happened, kind of guy. [...]
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Editor’s note: This is a guest blog by Martin Matusiak. Martin is a software engineer and a Linux enthusiast. He blogs mostly about technology with emphasis on Open Source and Linux. Computer users expect their systems to work well at all times, but unfortunately this isn’t always the case. If your system becomes slow, there [...]
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While reading Linux Format magazine that other day, I stumbled upon a tidbit about a palm sized Linux server provided by a Japaneese based company has been officially launched in the US market. The magazine claimed that this server could be used as a firewall, DNS server, network management, and VoIP management. Like any hot-blooded [...]
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You will probably notice that the default Ubuntu install screws up your valuable real estate very badly, everything is just cramped up. We need to do the some tweaks to snug everything into it’s place. Smaller Fonts: gconftool-2 –set /apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_font –type string “Sans 8″ gconftool-2 –set /desktop/gnome/interface/document_font_name –type string “Sans 8″ gconftool-2 –set /desktop/gnome/interface/font_name –type [...]
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