Tales From The Ansbach Area
I’ve often said that by using linux at home, I didn’t have to worry about the dreaded virus/malware attacks. I have also grown to know that there isn’t a lot that I can’t do. It sometimes takes a bit longer, but eventually I get what I want. Yesterday, I got a webcam for this computer. [...]
Sorry the system has been down. Last night I was trying to get my ftp server working correctly, and in doing so did something silly and the website went down. I Couldn’t for the life of me figure out what was wrong. The best thing to do at the time was leave it alone. I [...]
I’ve been running this system on opensuse 10.0 since it’s release. It’s been stable, and it works. But the support life from Opensuse is nearing it’s end. In November, security updates will stop. Darn. I guess I’ll have to update to 10.3. I’ll check it on the other machine first, and then do the install [...]
I am going to try to help a friend of mine, and set up a website for her here on my machine. It’s the first time I’ve ever tried something like this, and I sincerely hope it works. I get to learn about virtual domains in Apache and postfix. Hopefully I’ll get it figured out [...]
I have been a long time SUSE user. With all the talk about the Novell/Microsoft Deal, I wasn’t sure exactly what I was going to do – keep using SUSE or try another distro. I downloaded Mandrake 2007 and tried it. Not too bad. But I just couldn’t stand it, and finally downloaded openSUSE 10.2 [...]
I recently read an article on ZDnet by Dana Blankenhorn talking about Novell. As many of you know, Novell bought SUSE and has since made some bad decisions. Jeremy Allison, of Samba fame recently resigned from Novell in protest. The good news is that from what I understand he has been picked up by Google. [...]
This past weekend, I redid my laptop. I was running it dual-boot with WinXP and SUSE 10.1. With all the problems I was having doing the updates to the linux part, I decided I’d had enough. I blew it away, and installed SUSE 10.0. Now I’m happy. All my machines, include this one that hosts [...]
A few weeks ago, I wrote an page on my disappointment in the lack of support for Mondo and Mindi, the backup program I’ve been supporting for years. Well, I’m glad to let everyone know that the problems have been fixed. I’d made mention of the problem on on one of the mailing lists that [...]
I just read an interesting article about Novell, and what they are doing with SUSE. It would appear that they are paring down the desktop, and other versions. They are predicting layoff’s of about 600 employees. Now, I wasn’t at the meeting so this is all from the internet, but it seems that it isn’t [...]
Well, I finally got that other chip installed into the new laptop. It wasn’t too bad once I picked up the service guide from the internet. Now with 1 gig of ram it runs quite nicely. SUSE 10 is running is 64bit mode, and that is a lot faster than WinXP in 32bit mode. What [...]
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