"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."-James Dean
Dec 29
I have had a major hard drive failure on my primary PC. It appears that the disk that contained the Microsoft OS Vista has died. Unfortunately, that disk contained the boot-loader for my Linux system and I am unable to boot into Linux.
I was able to boot up a live CD Linux system and backup [...]
4 responses so far Hardware, Linux, Technology, Windows Vista
Dec 01
I thought you might like to see the desktop on my KDE system I wrote about in a previous post. Here is a screen capture.
I am using the plain vanilla desktop that comes with openSUSE. I have sprinkled a few widgets on it and they all have a use for me.
Dec 01
Nineteen days ago I downloaded openSUSE 11.2 Linux and installed it on my backup PC. I was so pleased that I decided to move it to my primary PC and replaced the RC version of Windows 7 and for the last eight days it has been my main system.
The layout of the desktop is very [...]
Nov 23
The title is not exactly correct. What I have done is to replace Windows 7 RC (the last free down loadable Release Candidate of Windows 7) with openSUSE 11.2.
I had been running Windows 7 RC in a dual boot configuration with Windows Vista for a few months. Windows Vista with all of the latest [...]
14 responses so far Linux, Software, Technology, Window's 7, Windows Vista
Nov 12
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 [...]
Jul 03
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 [...]
4 responses so far Hardware, Linux, Software, Technology, Windows Vista
May 10
I recently purchased an external DVD reader because I wanted to have more flexibility to do things with my ASUS eee.
I was able to give the ASUS a good workout on the recent Royal Caribbean cruise I went on. One of the things I didn’t care for all that much was the Xandros OS system [...]
Mar 04
After using the new openSUSE 11.1 and KDE 4.2 system for several days, I decided another update was in order. While KDE 4.2 has been officially released by the KDE org, it is available by openSUSE in what they call a factory library. Non the less, openSUSE considers if a stable environment.
I took a diversion [...]
Mar 02
I am happy to report that all of the problems that I had with my new system, have been solved. I am pleased with the appearance and the performance of KDE 4.2.
Feb 28
When I get bored, I do things I might not do otherwise. Like I said in a previous post, my daughter’s enthusiasm about her new PC made me want to make my PC look a little more up to date. I really hadn’t intended to upgrade to KDE 4.x until openSUSE 11.2 came out, I [...]
