One of the wonderful things I discovered this weekend in this life as a computer slave is Limewire for Ubuntu. Apparently this has been out since May of this year according to the Limewire Blog. Until today I had been downloading music files through KTorrent, which was fine, but when I wanted only a selection [...]
Finally, after several hours of troubleshooting, loading up the Ubuntu alternate cd installer and having it fail to install the linux kernel, I got the bright (late but bright) idea of replacing the default dvd drive on Maia’s Tiny PC with one of my old cd-rw drives. Hindsight wags its finger at me, should’ve known [...]
While I was camped out by Maia’s PC installing Ubuntu (and having a rather difficult time doing so on this Tiny PC from my Aunt in Seattle) I was surfing for tips on how to install Ubuntu on a really old PC. One of the sites I found was Jessamyn’s Librarian.net, where she has a [...]
A little over a month ago I had put in a CD request at Ubuntu.com. I was having problems downloading the 7.04 iso file. I was also having problems burning the iso I had downloaded, as I had mistakenly bought a bunch of blank cd’s that had only 750mb file capacity. The ISO needed 800mb [...]
