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Nov 12

OpenSUSE 11.2 Installed

By the time you read this, openSUSE 11.2 should be released and available to everyone. Yesterday, I found a server in Spain that had already populated its libraries and downloaded the 64-bit KDE Live Cd and installed it on my backup PC,
SUSE’s implementation of KDE 4.3 it much better than the KUBUNTU version I [...]

Nov 10

OpenSUSE 11.2 November 12

openSUSE will release version 11.2 on November 12. Linux users, who are KDE advocates, should take a look at openSUSE. While UBUNTU get most of the press, if you like KDE, KUBUNTU usually isn’t as good an implementation.
Most people still think that Linux is only for geeks and to some extent, many versions are. However, [...]

Oct 29

UBUNTU 9.10 Out Today

It has been a while since I wrote anything on the Linux releases. Today UBUNTU publishes its 9.10 release. It comes in many versions, Gnome, KDE, as well as several other variants.
Ubuntu is an African word meaning ‘Humanity to others’ and when it came into being, UBUNTU became the leading Linux for novices. It has [...]

Oct 18

PriceSmart Netbooks

There was a recent thread on one of the Yahoo groups about the availability of English language operating system laptops in Panama. I have seen them in the past in some shops in Panama City and occasionally PriceSmart has had some.
Saturday, I was at PriceSmart and looked at what was currently on the shelves. They [...]

Aug 19

Windows 7 Preview

In case you are considering Windows 7 and have a spare hard drive to try it on and a PC capable of running Windows 7, you still have today to download the last Release Candidate.
This is basically the version that has been released for production. I downloaded it and have installed it on a spare [...]

Jul 30

Mac Security Flaw

If you are a MAC user and feeling totaly safe on the Internet, don’t get over confident.
http://www.dailytech.com/Another+Major+Mac+Computer+Security+Flaw+Discovered/article15832.htm

Jul 20

Windows Vista vs. Windows 7

While I still have more PCs running Linux than any other OS, I became a Windows Vista user because it was installed on the new PC.
With Windows 7 approaching release, there are a lot of questions being asked about the wisdom of upgrading.
Today I read an article in InfoWorld, which tells me that staying with [...]

Jul 03

Technology Update

It has been a while since I have written about my recent hardware upgrade. I have it pretty well setup like I like now. The purchase has been a great success. I could not have touched what I bought for less than $2,000 and I got it for less than half that including upgrading to [...]

Jun 18

Staying Busy

I have been busy working on the new PC. After a shaky start, it is running like a champ.
I am actually happy that I resolved the Microsoft Vista problems and re-installed it. I have applied all maintenance through SP2 and it is running very well. I must say that I like it better than I [...]

Jun 13

Chiriquí Chatter Upgraded to Wordpress 2.8

Not that it matters to anyone but me, but today I upgraded Chiriquí Chatter to the latest version of Wordpress which is 2.8
I don’t believe it should behave any different than before, but in case you find something that isn’t working, let me know.

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