Today I decided that it was time to upgrade my notebook. Not that there’s anything wrong with my existing Asus V6J! But the upgrade will let me shuffle all of our notebooks up a place and retire the oldest (also an Asus) which is starting to feel its age.

In this and the following posts, I’ll [...]

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I use Skype extensively for communication with clients as well as low cost international calls. But, I have to admit that every time the configuration of the sound system on my Asus V6J (Gentoo powered) it takes me several days to get the microphone working again (even though it continues to work with every other [...]

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I’m not sure that there is a connection, but at about the same time that I updated my Gentoo profile to 2008.0 developer I started to get strange errors when doing an emerge –update world. The errors were not very helpful, one being “poor programming breaks airplanes” That might be cute (and even true), but [...]

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I wanted Bluetooth on my EeePC for mobile connections and therefore wanted to use BT for an external mouse so that I did not have to use 2 usb ports which would be the case if using a standard wireless mouse.

However, I do not always need the mouse (and I have 2 BT mice) as [...]

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This isn’t for everyone! However, users like myself and my team involved in software development and testing typically have several konsole terminal sessions open and spend much time switching between applications and terminals. On my machine this is compounded by the need to switch between desktops — you can see from the screenshot that I [...]

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Wireless networking is ideal for home and small office networks avoiding the costs of cabling, patch panels and allowing complete freedom of workstation location. Also, visitors with laptops can easily use your internet connection or share files easily.

In both my home and office I use a combination of wired and wireless networking. Basically, servers are [...]

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… there was nothing. But, as the days progressed there emerged more and more information about using Linux on a PC or Workstation. There were tips, stories about overcoming insurmountable obstacles, toys and many “hell, it couldn’t have been THAT” expletives deleted.

For a more formal explanation of what this blog is about, you guessed it [...]

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