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The fastest, most efficient file manager in Linux is the set of GNU tools including ls, cp, and so on. But if you want a graphical user interface, you pay a cost in overhead. Considering how important file management is, and how easy it is...
Posted on October 6, 2008 10:30 AM • 3 Comments •
Hardware has gotten faster and more powerful, but the damn computers do not boot up any faster than they used to. Well, maybe a little, but not enough. Meanwhile, the primary system people use, Windows, has become increasingly bloated. As a result, it is very...
Posted on October 5, 2008 10:19 AM • 8 Comments •
Ready for more shortcuts? And a small rant? These days, I find myself using a Windows computer far more often than I want to, and every day I am reminded of how much better the user interface that you get with Gnome running on Linux...
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Posted on September 28, 2008 9:09 PM • 16 Comments •
We have discussed kill before. Start an application you don't care about, say an instance of a text editor like gedit. Open a terminal and run top with the -b (for batch) option, and pipe it through grep with a phrase that should isolate the...
Posted on September 25, 2008 6:27 PM • 4 Comments •
... according to a recent study funded by ... oh, never mind. Funded by Microsoft. OK, skip that, but there is some other interesting tech news....
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Posted on September 25, 2008 5:18 PM • 0 Comments •
8 Linux Laptop - The HiVision miniNoteby Charbax For $98 [if you wait until October], you get an ultra-portable notebook with MIPS-based processor, 7" LCD, 1GB flash storage, 3 USB ports, Ethernet, SDHC card reader, WiFi, audio in and out, voice-chat, multi-tabbed Firefox browser support,...
Posted on September 18, 2008 7:42 PM • 10 Comments •
In many instances, a well thought-out regular expression can convince most non-technical people in the room that you're a computer genius who's brain possesses more synapses, forming more bridges and firing more rapidly than anyone's ever should. Oh this is so true. The other day...
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Posted on September 12, 2008 8:50 PM • 27 Comments •
Up Uranus Microsoft!...
Posted on September 10, 2008 10:04 PM • 5 Comments •
Your computer breaks. You are a Microsoft user. So you call technical support. You: My desktop isn't displaying anything but a error message John: I am sorry to hear that, what seems to be the problem. You: My screen is displaying an error message. John:...
Posted on September 10, 2008 8:07 PM • 29 Comments •
How can Google be taken seriously if a) it runs it's own business on LAMP servers using mainly Python; b) develops a multi-threaded browser with a memory-conservative development API; c) call it all open source and d) make it available only on Windows? Since Google...
Posted on September 2, 2008 7:26 PM • 71 Comments •
