Since Ubuntu 9.10 was released, I have upgraded (mostly by backing up data followed by clean install) all the computers in our house and in the office. The most visible improvement is the new version’s super fast booting and shutdown processes, unlike any of the previous versions. Daniel of DailyStruggles.org made a video overview showing [...]

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In the past I used to use Samba to share a printer over the Ubuntu network – yes, I am a fan of the Ubuntu operating system – no more Microsoft Windows Samba tends to give me problems using a shared printer. Now I have found a better way sharing a printer…
First some [...]

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Just learned that one of the reasons why many people are not totally happy with Ubuntu is the lack of support for flash in Ubuntu’s built-in browser Firefox. Basically the flash plugin is not there and you have to manually install it. However, because there are several plugins available people get confused and most often [...]

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By this time, everyone knows that Google’s announcement to roll out their own operating system that will compete with Microsoft Windows head on.
Unlike Windows, Google Chrome OS will be open source and doest not cost anything for people to use. However, the real competitor is not Microsoft Windows. What is it?

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This weekend I tried to install Windows XP inside Ubuntu 9.04 via VirtualBox on an old computer but was troubled by a serious of GRUB booting errors. First, it was the “Grub loading stage1.5 Read error”. After tweaking the BOIS settings, I could get away with the stage1.5 error but was plagued with other disk [...]

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Since I was introduced to Ubuntu – desktop edition of the Linux operating system – I have become a fan. I use it all the time and everyday! Once I fully get used to it, I can fully depend upon it for all my daily work – checking email, surfing, posting forum entries, building or [...]

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If you google and read about the April Fool virus/worm, known as Win32/Conficker.A or Downadup or Kido, you will know that it is a ‘worm’ virus that exploits a gap in Microsoft Windows software. You will know that it has already affected approximately 11.4 million Windows computers. It may start to communicate with more computers [...]

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This past long weekend (Canada’s Civic Day) I have been playing with a free linux-based desktop operating system on all the PCs in our house. It has a strange name: Ubuntu. I must say that I like it a lot – it is much better than Lindows/Linspire which I tried and abandoned years ago because [...]

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