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A need to update graphics hardware

June 16, 2013 Leave a response Shortlink

Not being a gaming enthusiast, having to upgrade graphics cards in PC’s is not something that I do very often or even rate as a priority. However, two PC’s in my possession have had that very piece of hardware upgraded [...]

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 [...]

Removing VMware Player from Linux Mint Debian Edition

August 4, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

A whole slew of updates have appear for my Linux Mint Debian Edition PC. However, to instate them, I needed to remove VMware Player and this is the command to do so: sudo vmware-installer -u vmware-player It worked in my [...]

Sorting out MySQL on Arch Linux

November 5, 2011 Leave a response Shortlink

Seeing Arch Linux running so solidly in a VirtualBox virtual box has me contemplating whether I should have it installed on a real PC. Saying that, recent announcements regarding the implementation of GNOME 3 in Linux Mint have caught my [...]

A look at Slackware 13.0

June 5, 2010 2 Responses Shortlink

Some curiosity has come upon me and I have been giving a few Linux distros a spin in fVirtualBox virtual machines. One was Slackware and I recall a fellow university student using it in the mid/late 1990′s. Since then, my [...]

An early peek at Ubuntu 9.10

An early peek at Ubuntu 9.10

August 5, 2009 2 Responses Shortlink

Even if the twice a year release means that changes to Ubuntu are evolutionary rather than revolutionary, that isn’t to say that curiosity doesn’t get the better of me from time to time. The result is that an early alpha [...]