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By admin, August 21, 2011 11:04

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Since I made the post for 10.10 here, I decided to update it with the process for 11.04. Honestly it’s not any different.

This is being done on a Ubuntu 10.04 machine and the USB drive is a 2GB Kingston. Its older, but more than sufficient for the job.

I hope this helps anyone having issues with this process. If you have any questions feel free to comment.

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By admin, May 23, 2011 09:56

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Well it has been a while but not all is lost.  Most recently i was quite surprised to hear that many people have problems with this.  Since it is pretty simple I figured it was a good opportunity to explain the process.  Sure Natty is out now, but I figure many folks will still find this relevant.  This is being done on a Ubuntu 10.04 machine and the USB drive is a 2GB Kingston. Its older, but more than sufficient for the job.

I hope this helps anyone having issues with this process. If you have any questions feel free to comment.

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By admin, November 1, 2009 14:03

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I have been running a links related mailing list for several of my friends and fans over the last few months and I’ve decided that I would make the list available to the general public. One person suggested I use twitter to announce new posts, but I’m still adverse to getting a twitter account at this point.  I finally got my spam down to nil tyvm and want to keep it that way.  However…I could change my mind.

This mailing list is simply a mailout published infrequently seldom more than twice a week and has the latest in technology events, the latest gadgets and toys, privacy and copyright issues, funny videos and some astronomy/aeronautics and science stuff on occasion.  Submissions are allowed and welcomed but no guarantee they will show up.  I don’t manage the content on the list and it isn’t censored so you may encounter content that may not be suitable for a younger audience.  Viewer discretion is advised.  The list is moderated by me.

If you want to subscribe simply visit this link and follow the instructions.  If you have any concerns or questions don’t hesitate to send me an email or contact me via this site.

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By admin, October 25, 2009 13:11

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Released to the public on October 22 Canonical’s latest and greatest Ubuntu yet “Karmic Koala 9.10“.  For many folks using a Linux distribution probably ranks up there with a visit to the dentist, but I have to say that as the kernel keeps improving in leaps and bounds the software wrapped around it can just work on the majority of hardware without issue.

Sure many folks may try it out and find out that it ‘does not work’ with their specific hardware, but compared with last years 8.10 the numbers are down with the sad exception of two particular vendors; ATI and Intel.  ATI recently dropped support for much of their older hardware, but then released a new series of drivers that do support.  Thankfully using the older drivers or using the open source communities versions can at least get them working, if you have problems with the more supported drivers.  Intel on the other hand has basically thrust it’s middle finger up at the linux community with a blatant refusal to provide open source to allow many distributions to be able to integrate support, so for many it means booting to a broken system, and downloading proprietary drivers and praying it works.  Obviously this isn’t the end of the world, but from my perspective a seriously ‘good’ reason to avoid using Intel hardware,  especially if you want to use wine to run Windows games or applications, you’d do so much better with non-Intel chipsets.  nVidia has the best support out of the box for most people not only linux users, but also windows users that it’s becoming a staple requirement.  Don’t get me wrong, Intel does provide drivers, but do not expect them to work directly from installation.  In some cases the generic drivers get installed and it works, in other cases you’re faced with non-working hardware and off to the various support forums seeking a solution.  Thankfully they are available.

In my situation I decided to get a new laptop and specifically bought a Compaq CQ60 which features NO Intel or ATI hardware, simply so I could avoid any hassles.  I’m pretty good at fixing these issues, but if I am spending money and the amount is equal, why buy something with hardware that will not work?    So without further adieu, I release my notes on installing Ubuntu 9.10 x64 on this laptop.

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By admin, October 24, 2009 16:06

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For those that have been following me since January of this year you may be aware that I took advantage of downloading the open beta version and testing it on a few machines.

I had really good luck with various systems and even installing it in VMware.  My only real hangup was my main gaming rig which runs Windows XP SP3, simply refused to detect the DVD drive.  Which was very strange since it was booting and running the setup from the very same drive.  All the VMware machine I build used the same drive also although I’m aware VMware does use it’s own drivers but that was it.  Every other box, method I tried worked without major problem

Today Saturday Oct 24, 2009 I took the liberty of installing both Windows 7 Ultimate x64 AND Ubuntu Desktop 9.10 Karmic Koala Release Candidate x64 on the exact same laptop a Compaq presario CQ60 laptop which came with Vista Home Basic which I really did not want.  If you want to find out about my Installation for Ubuntu check out the next story.  I’m publishing this one first so it should be the one right after or the newer one.

Continue reading 'Windows 7 Release – Installation notes'»