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Pondering storage options

June 1, 2011 1 Response Shortlink

The combination of curiosity and a little spare time had me browsing online computing technology stores recently. A spot of CD and DVD burning brought on by a flurry of Linux distribution testing reminded me of the possibility. Because I [...]

Do we need to pay for disk partitioning tools anymore?

November 29, 2010 1 Response Shortlink

My early explorations of dual-booting of Windows and Linux led me into the world of disk partitioning. It also served a another use since any Windows 9x installations (that dates things a bit…) that I had didn’t have a tendency [...]

Solving an upgrade hitch en route to Ubuntu 10.04

May 4, 2010 1 Response Shortlink

After waiting until after a weekend in the Isle of Man, I got to upgrading my main home PC to Ubuntu 10.04. Before the weekend away, I had been updating a 10.04 installation on an old spare PC and that [...]

Best left until later in the year?

January 26, 2010 Leave a response Shortlink

In the middle of last year, my home computing experience was one of feeling displaced. A combination of a stupid accident and a power outage had rendered my main PC unusable. What followed was an enforced upgrade that use combination that [...]

Rough?

November 11, 2009 4 Responses Shortlink

Was it because Canonical and friends kept Ubuntu in such a decent state from 8.04 through to 9.04 that things went a little quiet in the blogosphere on the subject of the well-known Linux distribution? If so, 9.10 might be proving more [...]

A case of double vision?

A case of double vision?

November 4, 2009 Leave a response Shortlink

One of the early signs that I noticed after upgrading my main PC to Ubuntu 9.10 was a warning regarding the health of one of my hard disks. Others have reported that this can be triggered by the least bit [...]

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