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Sorting a kernel upgrade error in Linux Mint 13

November 30, 2012 1 Response Shortlink

Linux Mint 14 may be out now but I’ll be sticking with its predecessor for now. Being a user of GNOME Shell instead of Cinnamon or Mate, I’ll wait for extensions to get updated for 3.6 before making a move [...]

Upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8 in a VMWare Virtual Machine

November 1, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

Though my main home PC runs Linux Mint, I do like to have the facility to use Windows software from time to time and virtualisation has allowed me to continue doing that. For a good while, it was a Windows [...]

Using the IN operator in SAS Macro programming

October 8, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

This useful addition came in SAS 9.2 and I am amazed that it isn’t enabled by default. To do that you need to set the MINOPERATOR option unless someone has done it for you in the SAS AUTOEXEC or another [...]

Setting up MySQL on Sabayon Linux

September 27, 2012 1 Response Shortlink

For quite a while now, I have offline web servers for doing a spot of tweaking and tinkering away from the gaze of web users that visit what I have on there. Therefore, one of the tests that I apply [...]

A place for GNOME?

September 21, 2012 2 Responses Shortlink

There has been a lot of doom and gloom spoken about the GNOME desktop environment and the project behind it. These days it seems to be the fashionable thing to go constantly criticising it, especially after what Linus Torvalds said. [...]

Widely differing approaches

January 28, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

The computer on which I am writing these words is running Linux Mint with the Cinnamon desktop environment, a fork of GNOME Shell. This looks as if it is going to be the default face of GNOME 3 in the [...]