CNSNews.com Headlines NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media BiasI 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 [...]
I have been pondering the makeup of the Linux and FOSS (Free Open Source Software) communities and my role in the same. I see myself as an Advocate of Linux and FOSS. I attempt to promote the use of Linux and FOSS as often as I can. While I am also not a proponent of [...]
Over the years I have spoken with many folks about using alternatives to Microsoft operating systems (a.k.a. Windows). Since I found and began advocating Linux distributions I have been asked many times “Why …?” and “Who uses it?”. I have also gotten statements that “Everyone uses Windows.”. Well, not everyone, I do not. Here is [...]
I dislike Google. Ok, I know “Google is your friend!” is a common phrase on USENET, in web forums and on IRC. But in my case I Just Do Not Like Google™ and do not think it is my friend. My reasons are personal and political and I will leave it at that.
So, imagine my [...]
There appears to be confusion in the Mandriva community about how to manage a PC using a static IP address (no DHCP client) with static nameserver entries in /etc/resolv.conf from the Linux command line interface (CLI). With newer versions of Mandriva the /etc/resolv.conf file is managed by the /sbin/resolvconf executable. There is a comment in [...]
A new 1.11.0 release of Crossfire RPG is available. Many bugs are fixed in this release (along with new bugs inserted more than likely). One can get the latest releases here which links to here. Most folk will just want one of the clients that allow one to connect to a crossfire server on the [...]
I spoke about 3D gaming under Linux in my last post here. In the words of Monty Python “And now for something completely different”.
Crossfire is a free, open source 2D tile based role playing game that, for the time being, emphasizes game play over glitz. If you are one of those shallow gamers that prefer [...]
So there are all these 3D games for consoles and Micro$oft Window$ that are not available for Linux as native applications. I wonder why a large chunk of the gaming industry appears to still be ignoring Linux? It is not as if excellent 3D games cannot be made to run natively on a Linux box [...]