This morning, a representative from Addison Wesley (my publisher) contacted me regarding promotion for Moving to Ubuntu Linux. I won't bore you with everything that transpired, but she did send me a cool flyer in PDF format. Download a copy, Read More …
Two long years! That’s how long I’ve put up with my current notebook, a Compaq Presario 2500. To be fair, it’s has everything I wanted and it has worked (almost) perfectly with Linux since I first installed Mandrake on it Read More …
This coming Friday, August 18th, my new book, "Moving to Ubuntu Linux", will be officially released. For those lucky ones who will be at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco, that date might be as early as Thursday as they are Read More …
The doorbell rang a few minutes ago and since I wasn’t expecting anyone, I had no idea of the surprise was waiting for me. Anyhow, it was the FedEx guy with a package from my publisher. I cracked it open Read More …
Maybe I should have titled this Why you should fear proprietary software. I generally leave pointing people to other stories to . . . er, um, well, other people. These stories, however, highlight so beautifully why open source software, open Read More …
Warning! Bit of a rant here . . . At some point in the next couple of months, I’m going to kiss my old notebook goodbye and purchase a new one. I’ve been looking (when time permits) at the various Read More …
One of the members on my WFTL-LUG mailing list asked an interesting question. He is running Kubuntu Dapper, has mplayer and all the fancy non-free codecs loaded (so he can play all those closed format files like MP3s, asf files, Read More …
Harken back with me, faithful reader, to the days of yore. Yea and verily, I speak of the days of video arcades, when a quarter of a dollar would buy you frantic minutes whereupon you, as humanity's only hope, were Read More …
There has been a lot of excitement regarding the development of the latest release of Ubuntu, code named "Dapper Drake" (release 6.06). Having spent several months writing "Moving to Ubuntu Linux" (my new book, based on Dapper Drake), I Read More …
The better late than never part of the title is because Calgary Linuxfest took place a couple of weeks ago now, May 6, 2006. So . . . before this gets too old, I want to tell you about my Read More …