Exploring What's Outside The Box
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Back in 2008, my patience with Windows was running thin and I was ready to explore other worlds within computing. Ubuntu quickly became my OS of choice and since Ubuntu 8.04, it’s been a constant companion. Most recently, when I upgraded to 19.10 in October, I realized I’ve been on the Ubuntu train for over […]
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Throughout my years, I’ve experienced gaming in a variety of forms, from the good old C64 and Amiga platforms to various iterations of the PlayStation platform and most recently, PC gaming on both Windows and Ubuntu. You see, I’ve been an Ubuntu user since version 7.04, or maybe 7.10. I can’t remember anymore. Either way, […]
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As I do my best to come up with fiction that is interesting to read, the bit about transferring what’s in my mind to a sentence, a paragraph, a page, a chapter and then finally a book, well, that part is also very important. After all, without writing, there wouldn’t be that much around to […]
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As a faithful Ubuntu user, I believe I have yet to skip an upgrade since I started using Ubuntu with version 7.10 (or was it 7.04?). I have done a clean install a few times but in most cases, I just go through the upgrade of the existing installation. Most of the time, it goes […]
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Having just received my Nexus 7 a few weeks ago, I knew that KitKat would be just down the road. In the last day or so, Google announced that it’s finally available for the Nexus 7 WiFi model, which is the one that I have. Of course, the roll-out is painfully slow as it can […]
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My Google Chromecast arrived yesterday and although I still need to write up a proper review (tonight or tomorrow), the one piece I wanted to mention right away concerns the Chromecast and Ubuntu. Initially, I feared there would be limitations to systems other than PC and Mac since those were the only ones I saw […]
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Every other blog out there does lists. Favorite apps, best things to do, new things to do. You name it, you can find it. A popular topic for Ubuntu users appears to be “10 things to do after you install Ubuntu xx.xx.” These articles shows up without fail within a week or so of the […]
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After spending a couple of days backing up large amounts of data I had no idea I actually still had, Friday night was the big day for the upgrade. The Installation My upgrade path this time around was a bit different than previously. I’ve been doing upgrades to existing installations for the last couple of […]
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The process has begun. The ISO has been downloaded, and the USA drive prepped and loaded, ready for a fresh install. Now I just wait for the backup to finish. As you may have read in my last post, I have decided to go with a fresh install this time around. However, before I can […]
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Within days, the official release of Ubuntu 13.04 will be available. Although the beta has been out for a while, I have long ago stopped messing with the betas after a bad experience a few releases back and also realizing that continually messing with beta software, release software, alpha, beta etc. just takes up time […]
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