CNSNews.com Headlines NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media BiasThe previous article here was about upgrading Mandriva Linux on a Compaq Armada M700 laptop used for business. Since that laptop has a minimal amount of software installed, mainly just business related applications, I thought I would document upgrading from Mandriva 2007.1 to Mandriva 2008.1 on my tower PC. This PC is for business and [...]
Mandriva Linux is a Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) distribution. One uses RPM to install, remove and manage software packages on such a distribution. In the past RPM got a reputation for causing “dependency hell” and many folks still think this about RPM based distributions today. However, Mandriva has tools called ‘urpm*‘ created by very [...]
We have a client that needs a new server for their primary Point of Sale site (SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 + Advantage accounting. I know “SCO! hiss! boo!” but this is what they have used “forever”, meaning about 20 years. We tried to move them to LedgerSMB on Mandriva Linux but it does not fill their [...]
While getting a new PC ready to ship today I ran into a popup message at www.fedex.com when trying to use our Ship Manager account to make and print labels:
Looks to me like yet another large corporate site checking for the operating system under the browser. As if that matters at all if they would [...]
Here is another great system for an eComStation user that is similar to the previous system I wrote about. There have been requests from several people for me to document these builds to help promote eComStation (demo CD URL) and I have agreed that is a good idea. Here are the specifications of this system [...]
Update Thu May 22 01:31:26 UTC 2008: (NOTICE! I’m not sure what I got but it apparently was not the printer on my LAN with embedded Mandriva. Any incorrect URL typed with 10.10.10.25 on my lan still returns that error shown below. Now to track down what system is returning that … Please see the [...]
I was recently involved in a conversation on the IRC network chat.freenode.net in the #ubuntu channel about notebook computers for Linux. The young lady that was seeking the information is a college student who wants to get a notebook computer to run Linux. However, she did not know where to find a notebook computer for [...]
The Linux community spoke and foxnews.com listened. I received a polite message late today from Mr. Dave Denis the Director, Product Development at Fox News. Mr. Denis stated that Fox News is now aware of the problem with their Video page and is working with Maven Networks to get it fixed. Mr. Denis also stated [...]
I have used NFS[1] mounts in our SOHO for many years for personal and business storage of files that need to be accessed from more than one PC. The file systems in /mnt are symbolically liked to /home/user directories and called mounts here. This makes accessing them very easy from each user account on a [...]
I have had the dubious pleasure of helping more than one Microsoft Vista laptop user recover from “This thing is really slow” syndrome. So far the fix has been to take the pre-loaded Vista laptops that were sold with only 512MB of RAM installed, pull out the 512MB of RAM and install at least 2GB [...]