I've always been interested in new technology. But I'm always worried about complexity for complexity sake. Now I know that some peo...

In open source, 'scratching your itch' is a source of birth for many a project. It makes the assumption that someone who has a probl...

Fortunately, the pandemic has little negative impact for me. Working from remote, couped up in the house,endless remote meetings. Tell me so...

I am a big fan  of Bacula. It is an enterprise-class backup system with a huge amount of flexibility when it comes to it's setup and the...

It's seems that I post only to complain about Systemd. I have tons of other articles in draft but only the ones about systemd drives me ...

Is programming an art or science? While numerous proofs can be made on programming languages on their properties, which puts it in the realm...

You are have been writing the post on and off for the past few hours. You have been diligently pressing save to make sure you didn't l...

This post has been months in the making. I believed I've reduced the rant-iness to a minimum level. It add nothing to the discussion el...

I've been quiet for some time because I've had quite a few interesting gigs. Basically, I was thrown deep into the corporate end of ...

I wanted to install Mageia on the Lenovo laptop as soon as my work allowed me to mess around with it since it was now my main system. M...

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...