ridin' the rails with ubuntu
I had enough of hearing about how wonderful Ruby On Rails is, so I wanted to see it for myself. Being the type of person who’s interested in many things all at the same time, I had a reason to try out...
View Articlethe ubuntu way, part 1
This might be the first part in a series. Ubuntu is unlike any Linux distro that I’ve ever used before. Its installation and quick ‘n’ painless and its ease-of-use are (currently) second to none....
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Upon reviewing my web server’s logs, a lot of people stumble upon this website o’ mine by submitting queries for “ubuntu phpmyadmin” to search engines like Google, Yahoo! and MSN. I’ll assume that it’s...
View Articlelinux gets flashy
Last night while updating some Firefox extensions in my Ubuntu virtual machine, I decided to try an experiment. The recently released Flash Player 9 also has a version for Linux. The last version for...
View Articlethe ol' switcharoo
This weekend I made the switch, leaving Windows behind. Sure, those Get a Mac ads are ever-so charming, but I did not switch to OS X – I’m not made out of money I switched to Linux – specifically...
View Articlemake amarok, ummm, amarawk
I mentioned before that since I dumped Windows XP on my desktop computer in favour of Kubuntu, I’ve been using Amarok as my replacement for iTunes. I like Amarok much better, actually. But I noticed...
View Articlegot guts
Ubuntu Linux 7.10, aka: Gutsy Gibbon, is officially available as of right now – right this very second. My plan is to upgrade my Kubuntu 7.04 desktop to Kubuntu 7.10 (because I like KDE more than...
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