I decided to play with Debian again, can’t recall why – it just seemed like a good idea at the time. So I grabbed my netinstall CD and installed Debian Etch (or Debian version 4.0). As expected, it installed without a hitch and all hardware except my PCMCIA wireless adapter was found and set up. [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Idiot’s Journey category.
Amarok Installation
Just like everyone else, I like to listen to music. I have an iPod for when I’m on the train or walking and I have my music files stored in iTunes. Unfortunately, Apple have so locked down their proprietary format that you just can’t listen to your music in the native format on non Windows [...]
Freecom Network Hard Drive
The death of the main household PC made me realise how very very fragile our setup here is. That PC held party photos, holiday photos and all sorts of other necessary information. And it was rarely, if ever, backed up. So I got reactively proactive and bought a means to slave the old IDE disk [...]
Slackware 12 in Da House
Having tried a number of different distros over the years, I always enjoy reinstalling and running Slackware. For a number of reasons, I was running Kubuntu for a while – if you need to be up and running in little time and have a fully functional and straightforward desktop, you could do a lot worse [...]
Part 3
Get me, I’m a Debian user. Who would have thought that, around a month ago when I decided to try a different distro, that it would stick. I tried installed PC Linux OS to try it out, but something went wrong during a large set of updates and I realised that I had no inclination [...]
Oh God…..Still
Just a heads up on just what it is I think I’m doing. I like the current theme based on Phenomv2. But there are a few things I’d like it to do differently. I also like a few things in the K2 theme and I like a few other things. I am discovering that it’s [...]
