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Listing hardware information for Linux systems

August 3, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

Curiosity about the graphics card on my backup PC caused me to look for ways of getting this information without opening up the machine or searching for a manual. In the end, a solitary command did the job: sudo lshw [...]

A little more freedom

December 10, 2011 2 Responses Shortlink

A few weeks ago, I decided to address the fact that my Toshiba laptop have next to useless battery life. The arrival of an issue of PC Pro that included a review of lower cost laptops was another spur and [...]

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 [...]

A bigger screen?

February 23, 2010 Leave a response Shortlink

A recent bit of thinking has caused me to cast my mind back over all the screens that have sat in front of me while working with computers over the years. Well, things have come a long way from the spare [...]

Consolidation

November 19, 2009 Leave a response Shortlink

For a while, the Windows computing side of my life has been spread across far too many versions of the pervasive operating systems with the list including 2000 (desktop and server), XP, 2003 Server, Vista and 7; 9x hasn’t been [...]

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 [...]

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