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PCLinuxOS 2010 beta review 10 Mar 2010 | 03:14 am
Once upon a time, PCLinuxOS was the biggest desktop distro. It came from nowhere straight to the top, beating Ubuntu and other big distros. But as fast as it rose to the top, even faster was its decl...
Updated pages 9 Mar 2010 | 09:58 am
I’ve updated the Screenhots, FAQ, Contact and Links section of this website (top).
Elive 2.0 Stable review 9 Mar 2010 | 06:56 am
Elive is a Belgian, Debian based distro using the Enlightenment (E17) window manager. If you want to install Elive 2.0 to your hard drive, you will need to donate money to its creator. This fact was...
Like the Phoenix, this blog rises from the ashes. 3 Mar 2010 | 01:50 pm
It seems I back. I’ve taken a long, long break from this blog. I thought I was done with it but I was wrong. The tone of this blog will change. I am no longer intrested in doing how-to’s. I will revi...
Firefox Notify 23 May 2009 | 01:09 am
Firefox doesn’t play nice with the new notify system in Jaunty. Luckily for us someone made an add-on to fix this. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9622 Follow instructions on that pa...
Zimbra Desktop 5 May 2009 | 11:53 pm
The Zimbra Desktop is out of beta and has launched it’s first stable version on all major platforms. Zimbra Desktop is an email client by Yahoo. I’m not going to copy all the features it has, you ca...
Over 500.000 pageviews 28 Apr 2009 | 11:24 pm
This blog has have over half a million pageviews. While that might not be unique visitors, it’s still a big number. I know I haven’t been as active as I used to be but I’ll try to pick up the pace a...
Fixing some Ubuntu 9.04 annoyances 28 Apr 2009 | 11:20 pm
Ubuntu 9.04 is turning out to be a great upgrade from Ibex (unless you have Intel graphics) but there are some minor annoyances that need tweaking imho. 1. Enable “ctrl+alt+backspace ” to reset X. F...
Saving videos from cache 27 Mar 2009 | 12:05 am
We all know it’s easy to download videos from youtube and other big video sites. There are a multitude of websites and tools for them. But what if you need to save a video from a more obscure source...
Remove trash in Ubuntu 6 Mar 2009 | 12:13 am
So you have a file in your Trash and you can’t remove it no matter how many times you tried? The solution is simple! Press “alt+f2″ and enter gksu nautilus Navigate to “/home/yourusername/.local/s...
