Every so often I get an impulsive desire to try something new and yesterday morning was no different.
While sitting at the computer and catching up on my RSS feeds I decided it was time to take zsh for a spin and thus my adventure for the day had begun …
read moreI was recently looking around for a new light-weight web browser to possibly replace dillo on my laptop and I stumbled upon Hv3 (Html Viewer 3), a small Tcl/Tk browser powered by Tkhtml3.
I played around with it for awhile today and I have to say that I found …
read moreI was roaming around one of my local electronics stores today and decided to purchase an Sandisk Sansa e250R MP3 player since I wanted a shiny new Rockbox powered player.
Unfortunately, after playing around with the e250R for a little while and being unable to patch the bootloader, I discovered …
read moreHow many of you out there hate to see aging computers go to waste?
I guess you could say that I have a bit of available soft spot for them because I have a habit of acquiring these machines from people and fixing them up when necessary so they can …
read moreWhat is your preferred text editor for the console? If you select 'Other', please let me know what you use.
Poll Results:
GNU Emacs: 9% (37 votes)
GNU nano: 26% (104 votes)
JOE: 10% (39 votes)
VI / Vim: 41% (161 votes)
Other: 13% (52 votes)
Total votes: 393
I was finally able to convince my sister to make the switch to GNU/Linux a few months back and I am pleased to say that she is still happily chugging along with it.
She is not computer savvy and was initially being worried that her pictures and other files …
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