Monthly Archives: April 2007

20 Most Annoying Tech Products Also Most Common

I wish I could brag that I’ve never linked to fluff “Top 5/10/20/100″ pieces, but something struck me about PC World’s The 20 Most Annoying Tech Products (found via Slashdot): The Top 10, which were the products chosen by users, … Continue reading

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Installing Ubuntu 7.04 “Feisty Fawn” on an IBM ThinkPad T30

Even though I’m a Debian user, I usually recommend Ubuntu to most people looking for a Linux desktop distribution. I recently got handed an IBM ThinkPad T30 that was donated to my school, so I thought it was about time … Continue reading

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Sam Hocevar New Debian Project Leader

Congratulations to Sam Hocevar on being elected the new Debian Project Leader!  I was very excited when I read Sam’s platform. He’s young and seems to share a lot of my gripes about Debian.  However, unlike me, he seems well … Continue reading

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SharpOS Says Hello

SharpOS is an ambitious project to create a fully managed operating system using Mono/.Net. I tried working on the project until I realized that just knowing C# doesn’t mean you can help create an operating system written in C#. Now … Continue reading

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Debian Etch Released

It appears Debian GNU/Linux 4.0, codenamed Etch, (quite a mouthful) has been released as the latest stable version of Debian. Go download it using BitTorrent to be cool. Tip #1:  You do not have to download all of the CDs, … Continue reading

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