Archive for the 'Ubuntu' Category

Hello out there in admin land!
It is I, El Di Pablo here to bring you a quick Ubuntu tip for the week. I haven’t written on aTa in a while due to my hectic schedule, but I am sure you have seen me milling about the comments quite a bit.
Anyhoo, so there I am last [...]

Flash Back Two Months Ago…
This is my first post as an Ubuntu user. Let me give you the story how I kicked my Microsoft addiction. Well actually my computers had an intervention!
The Admin has been through computer hell these last few days. First my Dell Latitude X1 refuses to charge… So I have been [...]

Hello Boys and Girls,
Commodore 64 here to bring you another horror story from binary-land. Lord knows I’ve been through hell and back with computers. Overheating CPUs, which were fixed by the cold of the winter outside my apt; crashing hard drives which were fixed or accessed by various means; faulty power supplies, which had me [...]

I mentioned in a recent post that I recently aquired an older Pentium III laptop with only 384MB of RAM. It really isn’t fast enough to run Windows XP without trimming the fat.I originally was going to put Xubuntu on it, because Xubuntu is designed to be more light weight than regular Ubuntu, because [...]

It’s finally here! The final release of Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon has been released today! Everyone is very excited (especially the lovely young ladies to your right). Doesn’t that make you want to try Ubuntu a little more??
They Make Upgrading From Fawn A Snap:Go to the Update Manager and it tells you of the new [...]

SugarCRM Plus Some Ubuntu fun

SugarCRM is the world’s leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software for companies of all sizes. Sugar easily adapts to any business environment by offering a more flexible, cost-effective alternative than proprietary applications. SugarCRM’s open source architecture allows companies to more easily customize and integrate customer-facing business processes in order to [...]

This is my first post as an Ubuntu user. Let me give you the story how I kicked my Microsoft addiction. Well actually my computers had an intervention!
The Admin has been through computer hell these last few days. First my Dell Latitude X1 refuses to charge… So I have been trying to be savvy [...]

Can You Update Ubuntu…By CD?

If you have ever installed a fresh new copy of Ubuntu, you have gone through a ton of updates. It is almost as bad as Windows in that respect. If you have to update numerous computers at once, it can also suck up all of your bandwidth. There is another way though.
What if I told [...]

Direct from the website Nerdica (What a name!). Put that old pc you have collecting dust back to work. Crack that whip and build a dedicated BT server that will never use up your precious hard drive space with downloads of the Simpsons and Futurama when you need it for those work files.
Everyone knows you [...]

Little Lisa writes in from chicago that her boyfriend has been trying without any success to install Skype on her Ubuntu instalation. Can we help her out? I think we can! I just hope we dont imasculate her man when he comes home to see she has done it with out his help!

After some Google [...]

Time for some technical blogging.
Today’s topic….Linux.
Some of you may have heard of Linux. Here’s what it is in a nutshell….An operating system for a computer, not unlike Windows of Mac. But there is a difference…it can be free!
There are a lot of fun things with Linux and a lot of distributions that are [...]