Entries Tagged as 'linux'

From here on, Heron

April 24th, 2008 · 21 Comments

Today, the new Ubuntu Linux version—8.04 the Hardy Heron—will be released. I have been using the beta or test version for the last two weeks and have found Ubuntu to be easier to use and install and its whole computing experience better than ever.
I had initially decided to stay away from using the beta version—the [...]

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Wi-Fi piggybacking widespread, anti-virus firm warns

November 25th, 2007 · 4 Comments

While setting up a Wi-Fi network for the PLDT myDSL connection at home earlier this week, I got a timely warning from a press release. Anti-virus company Sophos said many people now use someone else’s wireless Internet connection without their permission.
Sophos said 54 percent of 560 respondents who took their online survey admitted to using [...]

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Going cold turkey while setting up a hotspot

November 23rd, 2007 · 9 Comments

With my wife and I now using laptops as primary workstations at home, we decided to use a Wi-Fi router to share our PLDT myDSL connection. The snaking network cables were threatening to trip us and our kids.
I bought a Linksys WRT54G after reading about its storied history. Mark Stephens, writing as Rober X. Cringely, [...]

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Installing Ubuntu Linux Gutsy Gibbon

October 7th, 2007 · 9 Comments

It’s been four days since I’ve switched my main blogging tool, an MSI s260 laptop, into the beta version of the next Ubuntu release—Gutsy Gibbon or Ubuntu 7.10. This next version of Ubuntu is scheduled for release in the coming weeks but I couldn’t wait for the final version. I wanted it now.
After the beta [...]

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Open Source phone anyone?

July 29th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Open Source development has brought the world a stable operating system, reliable web server and thousands of free and very useful programs and scripts. Will it bring us the next great phone?
Last July 9, OpenMoko started selling from their website the Neo 1973 phone, which runs the company’s eponymous open source mobile software package. This [...]

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Playing with fire? Painting with fire!

July 9th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Or snazzy Ubuntu Linux with AWN dock and Compiz-Fusion
Beryl, the compositing window manager I’ve been using since I migrated to Ubuntu Linux in April, is now merging with the project it forked from, Compiz. The new project is called Compiz-Fusion and the initial work is great, a few notches above Beryl in some aspects.
RING [...]

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