I got a brand-spanking-new 1tb external drive (Western Digital MyBook) for archival, and I decided it would be a good time to redo my partitioning scheme on my current Linux Mint machine. I have two drives in that box, a 160gb (sdb) and 320gb (sda). For some reason, I had sliced and diced them partition-wise: [...]

I tried upgrading to a new widescreen monitor. It was a 20″ widescreen monitor from Dell that receives decent reviews and has decent specs. But my current, standard aspect monitor is much bigger and nicer than I remembered. It’s a 21″ monitor, and it has a lot of niceties, such as a built-in USB 2.0 [...]

via DesktopLinux.com, Dell is apparently going to offer Ubuntu on a couple of new systems:
Dell isn’t resting on its recent consumer Linux PC laurels. The computing giant has added a new laptop — the Inspiron 1420 Notebook — to its Ubuntu Linux 7.04 offering. It is also replacing the Dimension E520 desktop with the [...]

My first hard drive was a 40mb hard drive for an Amiga 600. At the time I was thrilled to have so much space. How could I ever use up that whole capacity? Impossible, I thought. Absolutely impossible. Fast-forward 15 years or so. After the hard drive I just added to my system (and big [...]

Sweet: Open Source Software for Palm-based devices. Or, as I like to refer to it: lotsa new software for my ancient visor! Unfortunately, this website doesn’t list what version of PalmOS is needed for each appp (something that Palm Boulevard does a very good job of). But still, everything is open source and free [...]

When it was first released, I almost literally drooled over Handspring’s Palm Pilot “killer,” the Visor Deluxe. All that Palm goodness, but in a better designed package. How could it not be goodness? Unfortunately, it’s price tag of $250 was too rich for me back in 1999/2000. So I had to pass.
Of the years, my [...]

Talk about over-compensating: after years of sticking to a single-button mouse, Apple has come out with the Mighty Mouse, a four-button, scroll-ball, programmable mouse. It’s a beaut; I’m thinking of nabbing one for my Linux computer. I’m sure it won’t be long before someone has all the extra buttons mapped in X.org.