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My Linux Journal Day 23

Published on January 24, 2008 By George

Today should have been really easy, but it was a bigger deal than I expected. It should be easy to figure out how to get your NUMLOCK key to be on when you boot up right? Wrong. In all of the Windows PC’s I’ve used NUMLOCK is always onwhen booting up, so I expected to [...]

My Linux Journal Day 18

Published on January 19, 2008 By George

Just a quick note with more detail later….. I’ve installed Wine, and to test it installed Notepad++. That seems to have gone well. Also since my Linux machine only has 128MB 512MB of RAM with a PIII 900MHz CPU, and because I wanted a larger monitor with higher resolution I’ve installed BFG Technologies ASLMX4000 GeForce4 [...]

My Linux Journal Day 11

Published on January 12, 2008 By George

FLASH INSTALLED Finally! I found a working HOWTO for installing Adbobe/Macromedia Flash 9 for Linux, and more specifically Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). First, open your favorite console. Next, visit this Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) How-To page. Once you get to the instructions (below) its a simple matter of copy/pasting 4 lines of commands, or if [...]

Preparing Ubuntu 7.04 for Upgrade to 7.10

Published on January 3, 2008 By George

I’m a novice Linux user, although I’ve used Linux on and off for about 10 years. Most of that 10 years has been OFF without Linux, so each time I start over I have to learn everything all over again. The history with my Linux machine… where to start? Its an HP Pavilion 8766c (an [...]