Linux login screen (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I have only Linux running at home, most of them Mageia . Which means that I am also Techn...

Some words of warning when editing in HTML in Blogger and what you should do every single time to avoid disappointment. I am livid. I was...

I finally decided that I needed a new laptop. My 2008 HP Mini was really showing it's age and I wanted to do some work with VMs that wo...

Something I did not encounter on Mageia but cropped up in Linux Mint is something quite strange. It's strange because it also seems cou...

There is no way else to say it. I haven't posted much in the past few months. Simply put, work overtook free time. In fact, work overt...

Sizing up WhatsApp and Twitter (Photo credit: Tsahi Levent-Levi ) A lot of people are scratching their heads about the Faceb...

When things go really bad, you may not be able to recover a disk. In those times, think of salvaging the data, reformat and live to fight a...

Linux Mint 11 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Full disclosure: I am no fan of Ubuntu . I applaud their efforts to put Linux in as many...

There is a wonderful article in ArsTechnica that summarizes the story of OS/2 , the competitor to Windows at it's infancy. I'll ha...

While in  the previous article , I described a solution to trigger a script when the network goes up. This works on most server Linux set...

Hewlett-Packard Mini 1000 netbook Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I guess it was time. My HP Mini 1000 netbook was giving me th...

Updated September 2012. I am posting this on Blogger for Android. I am happy to report that it is a better app than the previous version ...

TFS Brochure from Australia Back in the mid-1990s, I was connecting businesses to the Internet. I was selling software to connect peo...

At some point, I think, Mark Shuttleworth looked back and thought, 'I wish I chose BSD instead of Linux'. Imagine Ubuntu powered by...

I am not an Ubuntu fan. I stand firmly on the RPM side of the fence. Not for any one particular reason. If I could pinpoint it, it could pr...

Update: It's official. Microsoft has a hand in taking Dell private to the tune of 2 billion . Is this a loan like the 'investment...

Google released a new Blogger for Android and I'm happy to report that it is an improvement over the past version. I blog from everyw...

While I agree the science of search needs to be further developed, I don't think that Facebook Graph Search is a step in the right dire...

I had read somewhere that Sony were going back on their promise to make Android 4 or Ice Cream Sandwich available on my Xperia model, the X...

In another post, I told of my troubles with LibreOffice and Outline Numbering and how it stopped me from setting a table of contents in a...