This guide explains some rules of thumb for buying hardware to run Linux. By reading between the lines, you can guess if Linux is for you. Last updated Jan 17th, 2008.I have a new guide called "The 2008 Linux...
Today, my Linux software installer reports that there are over 18,000 software packages I can install. That's a lot of possible software... and even more intimidating when you know this is a subset of all the...
Disk drive dies, the OS is corrupted. How do you fix this on the cheap?When that disk drive starts to flake out, you have to be pretty careful about powering on the drive more. The longer it's on, and the more...
In Dramatically Extending the Life of Your Razor Blades, don_calloway explains how to extend the life of your blades with alcohol.There are a couple more things you can do. If you don't have alcohol, you...
Ever wonder what Excel was for? This is an historial explanation of what a spreadsheet is, what it's used for, and how you might use it yourself.Being an old, old personal computer user, it always surprises me...
It's 2008 and Linux market share is flat.The market is fragmented across hundreds of specific versions of Linux. So you can find what you want, but almost nobody you know is using that specific version of...