I'm a retired communications electronics technician, avid reader of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Linux (Kubuntu 12.04 LTS) user/enthusiast and lifetime learner. Twice monthly my wife and I publish a newsletter, more or less chronicling our explorations…
- Interests
- Linux, Live music, cooking
- PC Specs
- My primary machine is a Dell Dimension 4700, 3.2 GHz P4 with 2 GB of RAM
9 Posted Topics
 | I'm a Kubuntu (12.04 LTS) user and Daniweb has crashed firefox 4 times in a row before finally permitting me to post this response. I agree, Linux users have to put up with a great deal of discrimination, both overt and covert, but Microsoft is, after all, fighting for their …  |
 | I don't understand the controversy over privacy. We're all human and, for that matter, only human. There's nothing mysterious, complicated or difficult to understand about human beings. A great deal of our attention and energy is focused on our gonads because that's how we're made. We're hardwired for that and …  |
 | Re: depressed The best recommendation you can have on your resume is experience. Where the experience came from is of secondary importance. Lower your sights a bit and apply with a few companies most people has ever heard of. One does not begin climbing a mountain from the top. You'll have to … |
| | Any time I'm not actually sitting here using the thing it's turned off.  |
 | Re: linux If the hard drive is actually shot you're pretty much out of luck. If the OS is hosed (simply won't boot) and you just want to recover your files before reinstalling the OS, you can boot from a live CD, like Slax for example, and save your files to a …  |
 | This list is a little dated but Ubuntu (or, more accurately, whichever-buntu) is still number one. A current list would probably put Mint in the #2 slot and it'd become a matter of personal preference after that. For example, I'd follow Mint with Mepis, Debian, Slax and Slitaz and I'm …  |
| | Linux has wine (even though I've no particular use for it) *shrug* seems moot to me. |
| | It's probably a good idea to run AV and a firewall on Linux because they'll run quietly in the background without using up a lot of system resources. Sooner or later the evil-bad-guys are going to start writing viruses and malware for Linux. It's a little like the spare tire … |
| | [QUOTE=khess;1108456]As a current [URL="http://www.gnome.org"]GNOME[/URL] user and former [URL="http://www.kde.org"]KDE[/URL] user, I'd like to know when we can expect some new innovations from either of these desktop environments? ~~~ Please, be careful what you wish for. I love KDE but I hate kickoff. Everything works, and I have no trouble finding my … |
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