I just bought the latest Linux Format DVD, and I tried to boot the Fedora Core 14 distribution on the disc and it would not work, it gave me an error to do with the compressed filesystem. But I got a copy of FreeBSD 8.1 and I will give that a try later and see … Read more
While running Linux, if you want to list the contents of a folder in a vertical list format, just use the ls command with these switches. ls -hula –color=autols -hula –color=auto then you get the directory listing with human readable file sizes instead of being listed in bytes. To list the partitions on a disk, … Read more
After switching from Ubuntu to Knoppix 6.3 on my laptop, I am seeing the benefits of using this operating system that does not restrict you like Windows does, and comes with a heap of software to boot, including the VIM GUI and Amarok as well as a heap of games and out of the box … Read more
I saw this on Slashdot. LingNoi writes with this excerpt from ComputerWorld UK:“The London Stock Exchange has said its new Linux-based system is delivering world record networking speed, with 126 microsecond trading times. The news comes ahead a major Linux-based switchover in twelve days, during which the open source system will replace Microsoft .Net technology on … Read more
I just bought a 7 port USB hub that plugs into a USB port and gives you 7 USB ports, and I can use it perfectly on Fedora Core 13 and Gentoo, but it will not work at all on Windows XP service pack 3.? I am thinking that if I re-plug it in Windows, … Read more
Just replaced my 160GB hard disk with another of the same size, a Western Digital 7200RPM drive with 8MB cache as the original drive was about to fail. I copied the whole Linux directory structure across to the new drive, using Midnight Commander: /usr, /lib, /sbin & friends as well as the /boot directory and … Read more
I am typing this in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx alpha and despite the problems I had with the Nvidia drivers and having to use the driver downloaded from the Nvidia website instead of the supplied driver which failed to install, I am happy with it so far, the grub2 menu is not as slow as the … Read more
Just switched to the AmiWM desktop for my Linux installation, I am typing this in a custom build of Emacs. I built this from source and it is good for a first try, I need to get the Xaw3d development packages and some more X development packages to get more features, but it works very … Read more
I have just installed Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope once more, and I will see how I go with this, I have just installed the ubuntu-restricted-extras package and I should be able to play just about any format I want to. My Windows XP installation is playing up so I sacrificed the disk space occupied by Windows … Read more
Just upgraded to a new 80 gigabyte hard drive to replace my old and worn drive which was quite small and not very fast. Here is my partition layout. 2-:$> df -Hla Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 33G 2.4G 30G 8% / proc 0 0 0 – /proc sysfs 0 0 0 … Read more
I have just started using a Linspire 5.0 live CD when I am browsing the web and it seems to be the best way to browse the web safely. It has Mozilla 1.6 and OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 as well as an outstanding Kde desktop. And it auto-detects the network settings and mounts my USB thumb drives … Read more