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By Dave, May 5, 2006 6:50 am

gramps-project.org
GRAMPS is a genealogy program for Linux and other UNIX-like systems. The GRAMPS name stands for Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming System.

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By Dave, April 30, 2006 2:29 pm

Explorer Destroyer – Switch to Firefox, Make money from Adsense Referral

Do I or don’t I, that is the question.

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By Dave, April 30, 2006 2:23 pm

Ark Linux – Ark Linux 2006.1-rc1 released

Still looking. Have just downloaded this but not tried it yet. Am clearing out the tabs in Firefox to try now.

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By Dave, April 20, 2006 1:32 pm

Boing Boing: Firefox plugin cracks PDF copy-restriction

A much needed plugin!

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By Dave, April 20, 2006 1:31 pm

Kubuntu – Kubuntu 6.06 LTS Beta Released

Just downloaded the Mac version and am trying to clear my browser of tabs so I can restart and try it… 😉

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By Dave, April 20, 2006 11:37 am

Linux.com | Add network storage with NASLite

Good use for an old box.

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By Dave, April 20, 2006 11:32 am

InformationWeek | Operating Systems | Group Adds Linux To Boot Camp | April 18, 2006

So now you can go from bad (OS X) to worse (Windo$e XP) to get to better (Linux) on the Mac platform.

Twisted…

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By Dave, April 8, 2006 8:40 pm

PBS | I, Cringely . April 6, 2006 – A Whole New Ball Game

Makes a hell of a lot of sense to me…

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By Dave, April 3, 2006 9:35 pm

iTWire – IT News Australia, Telecommunication News, IT JOBS – Microsoft moves to Maddog’s phase 3
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then they lose. This was the four phase scenario outlined in an interview with Linux evangelist Jon Maddog Hall last month when discussing the likely response of Microsoft to the rise of Linux.

Microsoft do something counter productive? Never happen…

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By Dave, April 2, 2006 9:57 pm

PBS | I, Cringely . March 30, 2006 – Prisoner of Redmond

Wonder what os Allen uses?

Interesting article.

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By Dave, April 1, 2006 6:49 pm

The saying is that a picture is worth a thousand words so —

Got this when I went to the WeatherUnderground site today the first time using DesktopBSD. Since I had just updated to the latest and greatest I ain’t clicking… 😉

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By Dave, April 1, 2006 2:33 pm

Just trying out DesktopBSD. It runs KDE even on older/slower machines fairly well.

Initially installed it on a PII 350 mhz with 120 mb ram and it ran at an acceptable speed.

So next step was to install it on the test machine which has an AMD Duron 800 mhz processor and 375 mb ram. Put it on a old WD 20 gb hd. Runs faster than my main machine with twice the mem. Seems to be faster than Vector Linux too. No bench marks, just my gut feeling. Some of the KDE stuff isn’t ready for prime time under Vector. Everything seems to be ready to go with DesktopBSD though! Think I will play with it a while and see how it does. Haven’t tried any of the BSD varients since a stint trying FreeBSD 3 or 4 years ago and must say that I am impressed with the ease and completeness of this distro.

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By Dave, April 1, 2006 8:57 am

Ground breaking software decision to save council 60 per cent | eGov monitor

That bottom line is really starting to talk. Love it!

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By Dave, March 31, 2006 5:38 pm

Been trying different distros lately (again), trying to find something that is easy to use both for beginners and those switching from Windo$e. One more requirement has been that it run on older hardware.

The machine I am on now (800mhz 384 mb ram) is older but is running much faster than the one I use daily (1000mhz 768 mb ram) running pclos. Both running KDE which I admit is a hog. However here on Vector Linux, with half the memory this machine flys whereas on the other one there is a noticable lag when doing things like there is a whole lot of stuff going on in the background.

Now to install it on a 250/300 mhz with 160 or less ram and see how it does… 😉

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By Dave, March 28, 2006 9:20 am

Note to folks with websites that depend on flash—

NOT EVERYONE IS WILLING OR ABLE TO DOWNLOAD A PLUG-IN THAT WILL ALLOW THEM TO SEE YOUR OH SO CUTE FLASH CRAP SITE!

The web was built to operate using “HTML” as the primary language. ALL browsers support “HTML”. Many DO NOT support “flash” which is a proprietary bandwidth hog and IS NOT designed to render entire websites with, no matter what Macromedia may claim.

If you just HAVE to have flash on your site try to have another site rendered in standard HTML that the browser is redirected to that will allow viewing of your site…

Thanks for reading.
Dave

David E. Patty
http://www.technoprimitive.org

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By Dave, March 24, 2006 10:55 pm

freesco.org

Freesco! Need a dialup router? Got an old machine with at least 16 mb of ram, a modem and ethernet card? Here you go!

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By Dave, March 24, 2006 10:43 pm

Isn’t it semantic? : Articles : Internet : BCS

Really good interview with the father of the internet.

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By Dave, March 24, 2006 10:37 pm

SLAX download page

New Slax Live version out! Cable is getting a work out tonight. 😉

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By Dave, March 24, 2006 10:06 pm

A blogging tool in Hypercard?! – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

Why not?

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By Dave, March 24, 2006 10:02 pm

Damn Small Linux (DSL), 50 megabytes of penguin power

New RFC out for DSL. Just installed an earlier version on an older machine today and love it!