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Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron - Linux is Cool, Linux Wireless is Not - 10 Step Program

Gah. I have a love hate relationship with Linux. It is pretty cool, can do pretty much everything. But.. But.. wireless support is just a joke. Same issues with Yellow Dog Linux on the PS3.
Wireless should JUST WORK.
I downloaded the 8.04 iso, and burnt it to cd. Installed it in windows, which is [...]

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Windows Vista vs. Windows XP Debate. Who Wins?

I have been using Microsoft’s Windows Vista since it came out RTM, Oct 30 2006. I had it on a Dell desktop, which worked fine. Some driver issues before January 2007, but it still worked. I have had it on my main Dell laptop since May 2007. I use this laptop for work (read: Visual [...]

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HowTo: Hack Your PS3: Installing Yellow Dog Linux 6.0, and Actually Getting It To Work!

So, a couple of weeks ago, I bought a PS3, for the Blu-Ray disc capabilities. Since HD-DVD has died and I can get Blu-Ray discs through Netflix, and since the PS3 can be updated with new features, I figured I would give it a try. (The 100 dollar EB games credit I had made the [...]

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Linspire

Well, Linspire has made their OS avail for free, for the last 5 days, and it ends tomorrow. I downloaded the ISO and I am actually running it right now. I kind of like it. I will see how long I use it.
Check it out - expires tomorrow so hurry Linspire/Freespire Deal

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Red Hat 9 - Firefox Install

So I installed Red Hat 9 today on a machine, and I was going to install Firefox (instead of using the built in Mozilla). I was in a terminal, trying to run ./firefox-installer-bin and I was getting a stupid xpistub error. Found out that you just need to run ./firefox-installer
doh!
Anyways, all is well :)

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Linux

I hate that linux has the Ok and Cancel buttons backwards. What a PITA!!!
BTW, I just installed linux on a crap machine I have at home…I had XP pro on it…but the damn machine only has 192 mb of RAM, so it was dogging ass….The linux machine is running at 108 in use, the XP [...]

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Fedora..RedHat…wtf?

Ok, I am not a big Linux guy, but I think it is cool, kinda easy to use, and has some useful things to it. Red Hat 9 is pretty sweet, pretty cool, from the guys at RedHat. Well, this past year they decided to split off to “Enterprise Linux“, and charge for the OS. [...]

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Virtual Linux…

Well, this is my first post from a Linux machine. I installed VMWare and I am running a redhat virtually on top of Windows XP. Pretty cool if you ask me. BTW, I am at “Hacker Training” all week, so hopefully I learn something!

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