I’ve had HP printers for the last several printers we’ve owned and their Linux support has been spot on. Basically Linux can “see” the printer directly and the print drivers have been one of the options listed from the CUPS print driver options. I have grown unimpressed with HP as… Read more »
Every so often, as a Linux desktop user, it comes time to repave my desktop machine. This means to wipe the hard drive and then install a brand new version of Linux on the hardware. In this case, I am moving from Ubuntu 13.10 and switching to Linux Mint 17… Read more »
Hello TV fans! I’m about to make a change to my A/V setup inside of my house. I was curious about how this would affect my power consumption. Out comes my Kill A WATT and I roll up my sleeve and go to work. First, lets take a look at… Read more »
I have a friend that does technical sales to one of the companies that sell land lines into homes. He told me a story about his latest visit. These telephone companies know that land lines are a dying breed of technology but evidently they are in a panic on how… Read more »
I repositioned the antenna rotator in my attic this past weekend. It’s got a full range of motion now instead of it hitting some attic joists, which is nice. I lost a couple of pounds in the 120-130 degree temps in my attic. Ah well, it’s all for the cause,… Read more »
My wife surprised me with a GPS system for my birthday last month, and I love it. Georgia is a difficult state to navigate around. Each of the older roads are named for where they go.  This means that the roads end up changing names every 5 miles or less. … Read more »
My office is an oven in the summer. I’ve got two servers, a desktop, a laptop, and two 19″ CRT monitors. By the afternoon, temperatures are over 84 degrees in my office. I’ve contemplated doing all sorts of expensive solutions. Window AC unit was one, but it would be ugly,… Read more »
Here’s the link: Dell deceived customers, judge says The article isn’t well written, but the gist of the article is that Dell deceived people into purchasing extended warranties and service contracts that just didn’t deliver.  I never go for that stuff anyway, and you shouldn’t either. There were a couple… Read more »
I’ve run this setup for a long time: Windows XP machine with dual monitors of 1 17″ LCD at 1280×1024 and a 19″ CRT at 1600×1200. My MEPIS Linux laptop was running off of it’s LCD monitor at 1440×800. I’ve been doing more and more web design work and less… Read more »
A while back, I was helping to promote a (very) small company called TVease that sold a killer Linux based box with this blog entry. Unfortunately, like most small companies, it fell apart which is too bad. They made what looked like a killer box. Perhaps this is an opportunity. … Read more »
