September 1, 2009
@jacob I don't know why they really wanted to use Linux in the first place. I do however keep a Windows VM around for emergencies.
September 2, 2009
@rohankar I heard about that security risk on the Australian news a few weeks back, just leave your lights on and they think somebody's home
@fritzy I have had two drives and three motherboards go over the last 2. You get what you pay for is my new motto... I can't afford quality!
@orango QT is under LGPL now. Fully free. In my opinion the newest KDE blasts away all other environments.
@orango Maybe Gnome 3.0 will start putting Gnome back on the map for me :) We'll see. There is no reason Gnome couldn't be awesome.
September 3, 2009
@splitbrain People who don't know that you have to actually *plug a monitor in*. (look at the Microsoft Ad a little closer)
@sheytan I used to bring a USB hard drive and boot Linux at school. Then I got a laptop - I only pysically wrote in 1 book (for maths).
@fabsh Bah! My aussie internet has hit its cap and I'm shaped! I'll have to remember to download at work tomorrow.
September 4, 2009
@vascocosta The Red Hat Enterprise Linux doco is a great source of information. Have a browse over it. Nicely written, very informative.
@purserj How do you describe the NSW Gov's decision to distribute the netbooks to students running Win7? (Lost for words at their stupidity)
September 5, 2009
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/04/1516223/Steve-Ballmer-Directing-House-Party-7 Well... Interesting first for Windows.
September 6, 2009
September 7, 2009
http://www.power8workshop.com/index.php Mains powered version of this please. Maybe a bit less plastic too.
September 8, 2009
@marcosroriz Welcome to KDE! Just keep in mind that Kubuntu uses non-usupported hacks which end up breaking more than fixing.
@hex 2GB seems to be the magic tipping point as far as I can tell. Once you have 2GB everything seems much happier to do your bidding.
@captainshanks #Python for sure - but I think it is a better idea to become familiar with #BASH and shell scripting first.
@notmyfuckingidentica I am running a 1.6Ghz laptop with 512MB RAM and KDE 4.3 - I have a nice slim Debian net-install though.
@rrh I am sure there is a very simple recording app included in KDE - else Audacity isn't big and is very useful in general.
September 9, 2009
September 10, 2009
Interesting comment about #haiku-os / BeOS http://www.haiku-os.org/community/forum/what_makes_beos_so_special_today#comment-12212 R1 soon!
September 14, 2009
@captainshanks Debian or Centos are probably the most appropriate. I have done both as world-facing web servers. Both great choices.



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