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ByGarfDay trip to London to see the lights..
Journal | Linux | TechnologyStruggling to make Ubuntu look good with Blubuntu
ByGarfEditor’s note: This article is old and outdated. Blubuntu was eventually fixed in 2010. KDE4 also went on to be really rather good too. That was until they messed it up again with KDE5, but that is showing signs of being rather good now (2018-12-27) too. Seems that Canonical has woken up to the fact…
FAQ | Journal | Linux | TechnologyBacking up using big, cheap hard disks and some nifty Unix tools
ByGarfWe all have our favourite methods of data backup. Certainly DVD is a good archiving and distribution medium. But for routine backup, I look for reliability, low cost, ease of use, high-speed, high capacity and redundancy – so I am not reliant on just one device. One of my favourite methods is a complete off-site…
Pecs, Hungary
ByGarfAnother Christmas with my girlfriends parents in Pecs, Hungary. I always enjoy my Christmases in Pecs. And her folks are such lovely people. These are a few snaps from around the town, just after Chirstmas…
Lin Po and the Giant Buddha
ByGarfI eas feeling particularly poorly today. Do I gave my girlfriend my camera and sent her off to take a few snaps of the Giant Buddha nest to Lin Po monastery, high up in he Lantau hills.
Journal | Linux | Technology | WindowsUsing VirtualBox to run Windows apps that will not run on WINE
ByGarfI’m a big fan of WINE and an even bigger fan of CrossoverLinux. This is the commercial implementation of WINE by CodeWeavers. For many Windows apps it works very well indeed. In many ways I prefer it to using a virtual machine (VM) because firstly one does not have to start a VM just to…
