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We Need to Kill the Windows Installer

August 24, 2010

We need to kill the Windows Installer. More specifically, Microsoft needs to kill it. Why? Because it’s a poor method of installing software. Alternative operating systems to Windows such as Mac OS X and every Linux distribution do software installations the right way. What makes their method for installing software the “right way” you ask? [...]

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How To: Move from Windows to Linux

July 15, 2010

Over the past three weeks, I have partaken in what is easily one of the most daunting computer-related feats that I’ve ever subjected myself to. What is this task that has taken up my time and patience for nearly a month? Well, you see, when I first started using computers as a small child, I [...]

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Review: Ubuntu 10.04

April 30, 2010

As many of you know, yesterday marked the release of the much anticipated release of Ubuntu 10.04, codenamed “Lucid Lynx”. As I covered in my previous pre-release article, this release is important because it is an LTS, or “Long Term Support” release, which means that the desktop version of the operating system will be supported [...]

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Linux Claims The First USB 3.0 Drivers

June 11, 2009

After what is said to have been a year-and-a-half of work, it appears that the first driver for USB 3.0 has been born. Was it created for Microsoft Windows? Nope. How about Mac OS X? Not quite. As it turns out, Intel’s Sarah Sharp has created the world’s first USB 3.0 driver; and it’s for [...]

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How To: Configure Nginx As A Reverse Proxy

June 8, 2009

I previously wrote about why page load times are important and outlined a couple of ways you could improve your web servers performance with regards to page load time. One of the ways I mentioned was to use nginx as a reverse proxy to serve all of your static files while letting Apache handle all [...]

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Ubuntu…You’re Killing Me!

April 21, 2008

After a few more hours of playing with Ubuntu 8.04 Beta I was able to get my dual monitors working. What I ended up doing was installing nvidia-settings, however, for some reason that wasn’t able to save the xorg.conf file to /etc/X11/, so I copied the xorg.conf to xorg.conf.backup and then copied the nvidia-settings preview [...]

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Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Predictions

April 19, 2008

Now with the release of the latest version of Ubuntu only 5 days away what better time then now to make predictions about the future of the Ubuntu Operating System. So lets get down to it, shall we? 1. Linux (more specifically, Ubuntu) for the masses – not happening (at least not yet). While I [...]

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Wubi Installer Review

October 15, 2007

There has been a lot of hype over this new way to install Ubuntu by using a piece of software called the Wubi Installer. So I decided to give it a shot and overall I must say, it’s very good. Keep in mind that this is still a beta piece of software. First off, let [...]

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Ubuntu Linux (Gusty Gibbon) Disappointment

August 25, 2007

Yesterday evening, I was in need of something to do and every now and then I get these urges to try out Linux as a desktop OS again. I saw that they had released a new beta version of Ubuntu (the Gusty Gibbon release – which is scheduled for final release sometime in October) and [...]

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