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The “I’m right, your wrong”s…
So I’ve been distracted for the last couple of days trying to get a great little flight simulator called RealFlight to work on Virtualbox ( a stand alone Windows environment ) within my Ubuntu 9.10 environment. It would start the main menu, but then fail when I tried to go further, complaining that the graphics […]
Foxit – A PDF Viewer for Windows & Ubuntu!
As you are probably aware by now, almost every manual and “official” document that you find on the Internet ( and in business ) is in PDF (Portable Document Format). It was designed by Adobe Systems and ( thankfully ) in 2008 they released it as an open format. What this meant was that other […]
Christmas is in the Air
This time of year is when Christmas slowly creeps into my veins, it’s the little things, not the advertising that does it. When my wife and I were younger we always started our Christmas shopping the day after Remembrance Day ( Nov 11 ), but that was before the Internet and on-line shopping. We also […]
HDAT2 – The Ultimate Hard Drive Rescue Tool
So now that I’ve upgraded to a Karmic Koala, and am happy with most of the results, I’ve decided that it’s time to retire my old system ( all of 3 years…) and see what else I can do with it. Suffice to say, unfortunately, there are still a lot of things that don’t run […]
How to Dress up a Koala
So, as I mentioned my upgrade to Karmic Koala went pretty well without a hitch, it was certainly a lot easier than any Windows upgrade that I had done AND it went a lot faster and with fewer problems. That being said, the boys at Ubuntu are almost paranoid about anything that isn’t 110% free […]
