Category Archives: linux

Getting Ubuntu 9.10 to work (mostly) right on my netbook 0

Alright, this posting isn’t going to be long. I’ve been running myself ragged lately.
So Ubuntu 9.10 (hereafter Karmic Koala) was released in late October. I was anxiously awaiting it for my Acer Aspire D250 netbook. I also wanted it because a number of packages were out of dates, even in backports, and I tend to [...]

The incredible shrinking access device. 0

So this posting marks my debut on Computing Now: IEEE’s exciting new foray into the Internet.  It is a great pleasure to write this posting from an altitude of about 31,000 feet (about 10,000 meters), where I am unable to connect to the web (yet) to post it immediately. For as far as we’ve come [...]