Unless you are a hardcore gamer or graphic designer its hard to justify spending $2000 dollars on a computer anymore. Just 10 years ago when I started college, the computer I took to school was a $2000 beast with 64MB of RAM and a 500Mhz AMD processor. On the other hand, I bought my current [...]

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My wife hates using my laptop.  There is a password to login, a password for my wireless network (both home and work), I never save any of my passwords in the browser and you need another just to be able to use my linux shell (which she would never touch anyway). Why all this security?  [...]

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If you are new to Linux or even someone who has been using it for a while you may have wondered what the difference is between the various – not to mention numerous – Linux distributions that are available. There are literally hundreds of different distributions you can chose from. If you want to explore [...]

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I received and invite to the British-based social networking site, Quechup.com, from Hugh MacLeod of gapingvoid.com. I thought to myself, “Well, I guess I can check it out.” Little did I know that Hugh didn’t mean to send it to me (or the hundreds of others that probably got the same message.) The e-mail was [...]

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This picture explains half the problems that I get called to fix.

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