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Mandatory New Years Post

TheLinuxBlog.com — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:37:21 +0000

Happy new year! I guess it’s time for a yearly update, I feel like everyone else has done it and now its my turn. Hit the jump for some more statistics that are probably only interesting to yours truly. Top 10 Posts Interestingly enough none of these were written this year. Perhaps I should write a [...]

Packages you should install from the get-go

TheLinuxBlog.com — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:45:58 +0000

When re-installing or performing a fresh installs of Linux, I’ve found that packages often disappear from default installations. These are the tools I install from the get-go. I’m sure there is more that I’m missing, next time I re-install I’ll update the list. Feel free to contribute your favorites to the list in the comments! vim Because I like the [...]

THREE POPULAR OPEN SOURCE VERSION CONTROL SYSTEMS

TheLinuxBlog.com — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:30:18 +0000

Below, I review CVS, Subversion, and GIT; three popular open source version control systems. Version control systems are an organizational necessity for any software development project. During the software development process, multiple developers are often working with varying versions of the same code. One version may have a particular bug, while another version may have [...]

Automated Scanning with the Shell – UPDATE

TheLinuxBlog.com — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:00:19 +0000

I wrote a little script a while back that would help to automate scanning from the shell. Mark posted some suggestions that I’ll be implementing in this post. The first suggestion was to make the script work all the time, basically only stopping when exit, or quit was typed. Firstly, I needed to modify the if [...]

Ways to install Linux on a netbook

TheLinuxBlog.com — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:30:56 +0000

With my new Acer Aspire Netbook, it occured to me that it had been a long time since I’d installed Linux on a system without a CDRom. This post outlines some methods you can use to get it installed External CDRom install The easiest method. Plug in the USB CDRom, and install as normal. Perhaps [...]

File Transfer Disk Space Tip

TheLinuxBlog.com — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:44:32 +0000

I recently got a new computer. Part of the upgrade process was backing up and moving a large amount of data off of my old PC and onto my NAS so that I could sort through it later. One of the annoying things about copying files is it’s difficult to really know how long its going [...]

New PC

TheLinuxBlog.com — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:27:28 +0000

I ordered a PC a while back and thought I’d write about it. I’ve been running pretty much the same desktop hardware for the past 5 years. Eventually things got so slow on the desktop that I started using my Core 2 Duo Lenovo T61 laptop as my desktop. This worked for a while, and [...]

Dual Boot or Not Dual Boot

TheLinuxBlog.com — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:30:34 +0000

Here is a picture of Sir Billiam Gates kissing Claire Danes, Who is supposedly in Charlotte, NC right now filming or something. After making it I thought to myself well, it doesn’t really fit the whole “Dual Boot” theme. So I gimped another one up with Richard Stallman as Claire Danes (warning: may scare anyone [...]

Review: Acer Aspire One

TheLinuxBlog.com — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:00:36 +0000

Earlier this year, I was shopping around for Netbooks and purchased the Acer Aspire One Netbook. I was specifically looking for a Netbook that was fairly small and portable, but with a keyboard that was actually usable. BestBuy had a few, a nice HP with an awesome keyboard…but it only came in hot pink… Not [...]

Lego Tux

TheLinuxBlog.com — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:57:06 +0000

As many kids do, I grew up playing with Lego’s, there is something magical about building with the little plastic bricks. One day I was bored so I Googled Lego Tux’s and found an awesome Lego Tux. It has been around for a while but is still really cool. I don’t have enough bricks to [...]