When I need to run a Windows based application on my trusty Ubuntu Hardy box, I don’t use Wine. Don’t get me wrong, it’s just that I don’t want to have to manage the Wine environment and prefer to have Windows and it’s associated applications tucked away in it’s own virtual system. This way if
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I’ve posted more than once about tips we can complete to improve our web surfing. This morning I was cleaning out some old hardware (to take to the recycling centre) when I happened upon one of the last old laptops I had.
It’s an older IBM Thinkpad T22, Type 2647 with 256MB of RAM and a [...]
Recently I posted “Build a Web Developer PC and Enable Most Media Playback Using Ubuntu Linux” and received a few messages asking what other tools I use. To save me time with answering email messages that essentially contain the same information, and to help the maximum number of readers, I thought it would be a [...]
For those of you who follow my other blog, you’ll know that my last Windows PC had a major failure again. You can read some of the specifics in the “When Disaster Strikes – Again” post. At that point I decided to install Ubuntu (effectively removing Windows based PC’s from the network).
In some ways I
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