Archive for the 'Linux' Category

FreeBSD Success

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

So, I did finally manage to get FreeBSD installed last weekend. There were a few factors stabbing me in the back (and making me slag FreeBSD more than it deserved). Specifically, I’ve decided, after about 15 tries, that:

I think the machine got thrown out because one or both of the IDE ports got funked up
I [...]

Building the Imperfect PC

Saturday, December 17th, 2005

O’Reilly has a book called Building the Perfect PC. I have built many PCs in the last 6 or 7 years, starting with the machine that I built for myself to take to college. Yet, I have never built the perfect PC. In fact, almost every PC I’ve built then has used a significant number [...]

KUbuntu Rocks

Saturday, December 10th, 2005

Installing Kubuntu on my Apple (Lombard) Powerbook was so easy