Maybe a change is due…

I gotta say, I really like Mandriva. But lately, it has started to feel pretty safe, tame even. Don’t get me wrong, I am not dissatisfied, but I have been reading about other distros, and am thinking of trying my hand at Debian, Slackware, and even FreeBSD.
Slackware seems especially interesting, and I hear [...]

The joy of video drivers

So, I use nVidia. I know its binary. But it works well. ATI seems to have come a long way with its installer, but I had lotsa bad experiences early on, and just got comfortable with nVidia.
One of the things I relish, that reminds me of the flexibility of Linux, is to [...]

My choices with partitions

Over time, I have learned some hard lessons with thinking through your partition plan *before* partitioning. Plenty of “D’oh!” moments to be enjoyed by all. First and foremost, I learned not to partition the way Windows does (having just come off of Windows) – one big drive. After a reinstall, losing everything, [...]

Squid and Dansguardian web filter – making my son’s PC kid-safe

Squid, dansguardian, squid-guard, transparent proxy, iptables

Recursive Anagrams

PHP: PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
GNU: GNU’s Not UNIX
I know there are more, but more escapes me right now. Got any to add?

Firefox extensions I use…

I have a few I always install – the upgrade to Firefox 2.0 (worthwhile just for the Recently Closed Tabs feature) killed the throbber, which I missed, so I found the Throbber extension. Of course, the upgrade also killed off a few favorites (Plain Text Links being one), and I had to find [...]

Why?

I am making this site to put out solutions to problems I have run across, and invite others to post the same. While I primarily use Mandriva, any flavor of Linux or BSD is a suitable subject. Not too interested in philisophical debates over what distro, OS, or desktop is better – they [...]