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 [...]
Talking to the doctor about my voice problems, and being impressed by Google.
Installing Ubuntu on a mini-notebook without CD.
This old laptop is actually running a lot more programs at the same time than it looks like. It has four workspaces (virtual screens), three of which are active with a number of programs each. Then again, it is running Ubuntu Linux, not Microsoft Windows. Oh, and there’s an USB memory key and a 2 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This description (from the anime Hatsukoi Limited, btw) probably describes the average user of this new piece of free software. Ironically, it is called “Opera unite”.
On February 16, 2001, I wrote an essay about PC-to-PC networking and the future of the Internet. And then I did not upload it, because I decided to write about [...]
Age of Conan anniversary and how I fixed a graphics glitch in the game (transparent character).