Notes from my scanning workflow from yesterday.
I’ve had my Epson Perfection 3490 Photo scanner for years — a gift from Hubby, Christmas 2003 or 2004, I think — but it never played happily with whatever Linux set-up I had at the time. But there’s a maxim that Linux distributions (editions) work better with older equipment, [...]
My favorite lightweight distro (edition) of Linux is Philip Newborough’s young CrunchBang Linux, an unofficial variant of Ubuntu Linux using the OpenBox window environment. Now that it’s moved past its wobbly fawn phase, Newborough’s moved it from his CrunchBang blog to crunchbanglinux.com. Bookmark and savor.
But who would make the most of this distro? Perhaps someone [...]
Fascinating. Announced today:
We are really pleased to announce Ubuntu Open Week!
Ubuntu Open Week is a week of IRC tuition and Q+A sessions all about getting involved in the rock-and-roll world that is the Ubuntu community. We organise this week for the beginning of a new release cycle to help new contributors get involved.
IRC — Internet [...]
Ubuntu Linux 8.10, codenamed “Intrepid Ibex”, is due out tomorrow, October 30.
Even though it doesn’t have tons of new features — and won’t include OpenOffice.org 3 by default; it came out too late to be included, but can be added by end users — I’ll be sure to upgrade it tomorrow. (The last edition, 8.04 [...]
I got my laptop secondhand, so I wasn’t entirely sure what I had.
The following command not only details my hardware, but creates an HTML (web page) file for reference, which you can then read in a browser like Firefox.
Which is good news for me: turns out there is lots of room for more RAM to [...]
It’s no secret I have little patience for the Episcopal Church of late, so I wasn’t looking out for the theme of the 2009 General Convention. The Topmost Apple, an Episcopalian blogger I follow, presumably has more patience for the Episcopal Church, but little regard for the theme, which is “Ubuntu: I in You and [...]
A word to my Windows-using readers. You know I love Linux, and use Ubuntu Linux at home and work. I hope you would give it a try but would understand if it doesn’t appeal to you, or (at least) you get enough value from a Microsoft product to stay put.
But there’s still a good reason [...]
I have an odd set of interests, or odd enough to seem distinct. But the Internet is a big non-place and finding a parallel is inevitable.
I’m terribly fond of a blog — UbuntuCat — described as “Random musings from the radical feminist Christian antiracist left - some having to do with Ubuntu.” If you [...]
Last week, Michael Horowitz, writing his Defense Computing column for CNet makes the case that Linux — specifically vanilla Ubuntu Linux — is a more intuitive next step for Windows user than the Mac is. Using screenshots, he shows what a first-time Ubuntu Linux user would see and how it jibes with what a Windows [...]
Still not thrilled with using a proprietary media format, but first things first. I got it to work. With wifi no less. (And you get to see what my desktop looks like.)
Now, how did I do it? Not entirely sure.
I am using VLC — the Swiss Army knife of media players; available for all the [...]
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