Linux on a stick
April 27, 2010
Experience with running Ubuntu Linux from a USB key, April 2010.
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To the left, the repaired computer. To the right, the one I have used since December 2. In the foreground, the broken power supply unit.
Today, dear reader, I want to babble about computers and software. It will get geeky. You are not obliged to read if it makes your eyes go round and round. The [...]
Installing Ubuntu on a mini-notebook without CD.
Long-time readers may remember that I seem to have discovered a cause and effect that is hard for science to explain. Using the formula of a well known Internet meme, I have summed it up like this: ”Each time you buy a laptop, God kills a tooth.” This has held true at least three [...]
Dentist visit, landline telephone, wireless and Linux. Just another day at Chaosnodeland.
Obviously this picture is taken after the grub is rescued.
The subject line will make sense for those who desperately need this post. I apologize to my normal friends for a line that looks like sheer insane babble. But such is life for us who dabble in the wild world of Linux, the free and rapidly [...]
New router. And hopefully better.
Continued from yesterday.
It was a good thing I had the old D-Link router lying in the cupboard, since otherwise I would have been limited to one computer at a time like other humans. With the spare router in use, however, I no longer had a spare router. So I went to [...]
Old router brought back after years in a dusty plastic bag.
Last night as I was about to go to bed, very sleepy, I thought I heard far-off thunder. I turned off all the computers and the network (router and ADSL modem) and disconnected them from the mains. I did not however unplug the phone [...]