A large chunk of my holiday was spent in geek mode. Yes, I partook of holiday spirits, exercised a bit, and relaxed — but I needed to do some pretty significant updates to some outdated servers that I’m responsible for on campus. This is a record of what I did to breathe new life into my obsolete equipment.
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Problems Fixed!
Yesterday, I reported that my new Ubuntu 9.10 install on my new Acer Aspire 4810T had a couple of problems: one major and the other one minor. Well, as of this posting, both seem to be fixed! Sleep, what the peecee laptop community calls “suspend” and “hibernate,” did not work. The CD/DVD drive did not [...]
Going Linux: First Observations
Yesterday, I purchased my first peecee laptop to use for my daily “work.” It’s a surrogate for a broken MacBook Pro that’s running Ubuntu 9.10. After an evening of playing, I have some initial impressions, both of the machine and Ubuntu. First the good stuff. It is quick, even on my Acer Aspire 4810T’s single-core [...]
The Switch (Kind Of)
I’ve been a Mac user since the late-eighties. Yet, today I bought my first PC (sort of). The Mac OS and Apple computers is still my platform of choice, but I am an all-around computer enthusiast. I don’t mess with M$ Windoze (an inferior product mixed with a corporation’s questionable business practices keep me far [...]
Cox Blocked
I’m about to give up. I know that’s what they want me to do. Between MSC turning off POP and IMAP, their trying to ram WebCT/Vista down my throat, and now trouble with my Cox, my technological endeavors have been stymied as of late. Over the weekend, I brought my dead sever home from campus. [...]
Leopard Server Woe(s)
Apple, would you please tell me why you do not include the GD libraries as part of the out-of-the-box install for Leopard Server? As if that wasn’t bad enough, why then is it so difficult for me to install them? All of the tutorials I have found on the Internet are either too old, or [...]
Choice
Tired of giving M$ all your money for a productivity suite? Well, contrary to what you might think, you do have a choice. Try AbiWord, a beautiful free alternative to Word, or OpenOffice, a free office solution. Both read and write popular formats, so you won’t be living on a computing island all by yourself. [...]