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A Pain (Flash) in the Neck
In between being tied up with babysitting my grandsons and fighting off flu bugs I have been battling a rather nasty problem that I have been having with playing anything associated with using Flash on Firefox 3 on Ubuntu 8.04. And FINALLY, just now, I found the fix that worked. It’s the little things like […]
Microsoft Messenger – without using Microsoft Software
So I have been making great progress moving over to Linux, my printers are printing. My scanners are scanning, my email is emailing and of course my share files are sharing! However there was one area that I was having a little problem with – Microsoft Live Messenger (or MSN Chat if you prefer)! There […]
A New Scanner for Linux
So, I have been working in Ubuntu for a while now and I have to admit – I’m liking it more and more. Which is really no surprise with my work background being in Unix. But I have to admit it’s rather nice not to come into the office and not find the computer rebooted […]
Doing the Samba NTFS Shuffle
Dumb title – yeah I know – but I thought I would try to help those just browsing titles to get an idea what the article may be about ( yet another one of those “changes” that I am implementing – we’ll see how well this one goes…) By the way, this article is pretty […]
I Have Created Fire!
As anyone who has seen that great move Cast Away with Tom Hanks ( and if you haven’t seen it, you really should! ) After struggling with his sticks ( trying to create a fire ) for what was probably weeks, he finally succeeds and he is so excited and energized that he is almost […]
