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Ubuntu and Amazon Search – Love or Hate

Well I am certainly not the only one out there that thinks Ubuntu is starting to take advantage of its user base. Ubuntu announced in beta 12.10 the now famous Amazon Search feature. I had a bad...

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A Solution to Secure Boot For Linux

One developer in the Linux community, Matthew Garrett, has released a bootloader as reported by the H here, that will allow any Linux or BSD distribution to use secure boot . I was very happy to read...

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New Laptop, Windows 8 Gone, Installed Linux Mint 14 Nadia

Well I finally took the plunge and purchased a new laptop. I got myself a Lenovo G580 with a B980 PDC CPU sporting 4GB of RAM, 500GB hard drive and more goodies. For the longest time, 10 years, I have...

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Awesome Raspberry Pi Supercomputer Build

This is in my opinion the coolest project I have ever come across for the Raspberry Pi. You have to check this out if you are true geek. Also they include some of the best most detailed instructions on...

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Happy Birthday to Free Software!

Cartoon Linux Box from Clker.com     I enjoyed reading this short article about Richard Stallman and thought I would pass it along. Until a few minutes ago I wasn’t aware of the significance of today...

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Have You Tried Parted Magic?

In my humble opinion, Parted Magic is simply the best multi-purpose tool-kit anywhere. I know there are competitors if you want to call them that. And they comprise some pretty good tools themselves....

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Upgraded to Linux Mint 17 Qiana

Last week I upgraded Mint to Qiana. I don’t like to upgrade my main laptop that often, but when I saw that version 17 would be supported to 2019, I had to do it. I downloaded the ISO and prepared a...

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Restore Thunderbird Email

Recently I was forced to restore one of my email accounts that I use Thunderbird as my main client. But first a bit of background is in order. The domain that held the account was in a separate package...

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