Archive for May, 2005

WiFi in Libranet

Friday, May 27th, 2005 Posted in How-Tos, Networking | No Comments »

Several months ago, I made several bad choices in a row. With a dead WiFi card, I found myself in Best Buy, trying to fill that need for living wirelessly. ... Read more..

Slackware 10.1 or How I Learned About Text Based Installs!

Monday, May 23rd, 2005 Posted in Books, Desktop, How-Tos, Installation, XWindow | No Comments »

While I might be the last Linux user on the planet to do it, I have finally installed SLACKWARE. I have had a long dread of installing this distro ... Read more..

A LOOK AT SOME DISTROS FROM THE PAST MONTH

Sunday, May 22nd, 2005 Posted in Desktop, Distributions, Installation, Libranet, Networking, Printing, Yoper | No Comments »

During the past month, we have reviewed several distributions and I thought it would be interesting to look back and see how our initial impression had changed after using ... Read more..

Oh That UNIX Shell!

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005 Posted in Books, Command Line, How-Tos, Terminal Tweaks | No Comments »

A UNIX Shell is in simplest terms, a command line interpreter, that takes the users input and gives it to the Kernel. If you are familiar with DOS, you will ... Read more..

HERE’S A FIX

Saturday, May 14th, 2005 Posted in Books, How-Tos, Terminal Tweaks | No Comments »

Lets fix a problem. In an earlier post on SIMPLY MEPIS 3.3.1, I stated I was a little disturbed that there was no E-mail program with exception of Kmail. While ... Read more..

SIMPLY MEPIS 3.3.1 (A First Look)

Friday, May 13th, 2005 Posted in Books, Desktop, Installation, Simply Mepis | No Comments »

In February, we reviewed Simply Mepis 3.3 and were ready to present Warren and his crew an “OSCAR.” Now, three months later, we take a look at SIMPLY MEPIS ... Read more..

Mandriva and email

Thursday, May 12th, 2005 Posted in Mandrake | No Comments »

Mandriva Limited Edition 2005 is the transitional release intended to transition from discrete Mandrakelinux and Connectiva distributions to Mandriva which is the result of the recent merger / acquisition of ... Read more..

Password Security Part 2

Monday, May 9th, 2005 Posted in Books, Questions | No Comments »

Password Security and Safety - Part 2 of 2 Avoid bad passwords, or easily guessable passwords There are many characteristics that are considered bad when it comes to choosing a ... Read more..

LIBRANET 3.0 WOW

Friday, May 6th, 2005 Posted in Books, Desktop, How-Tos, Installation, Libranet, Printing | No Comments »

When I first reviewed LIBRANET 2.8.1 in 2004, I was very impressed with the distro. Later in the year, one of our visitors to the site reviewed the distro ... Read more..

VO-ip for all platforms

Monday, May 2nd, 2005 Posted in Desktop, How-Tos, Installation | No Comments »

A few months ago I was introduced to SKYPE. It seemed like the thing to do, since one of my sons and I would talk, ... Read more..