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the sucky state of linux video drivers
By basd on Aug 24, 2010 | In linux, opensuse
I can't complain too much -- all of my computers run linux and all of them work. But that's not precisely the entire story, is it? In fairness, I could not write a video driver if my life depended on it. Then, there is the chaos added by the fact tha… more »
dropbox, truecrypt, etc. ... and cloud security issues
By basd on Aug 23, 2010 | In linux, cloud computing
Cloud computing has inherent security issues that do not exist when you keep your computer and isolated from attack. Just keeping some reasonable focus on the issues is a herculean task.With free software, we do not actually know there is no malevol… more »
ok, a tad slower. just a tad.
By basd on Aug 22, 2010 | In linux, jolicloud
jolicloud desktop with added conky, compiz, cairo dock, google gadgets
I warned ... me. I would customize this Jolicloud thing until I slowed it down.And I did. Of course, this elderly e-Machine is still 100x faster than when I boot into the native, now extremely kludgy WindowsXP. I know where this is going -- next I wi… more »
more jolicloud
By basd on Aug 21, 2010 | In linux, cloud computing, jolicloud
You can see I have added a category for "jolicloud" to my blog. I now have two computers running Jolicloud and everything is going great(er) than expected! When I tried the beta, I did not realize that Jolicloud was sitting on top of a full Ubuntu ins… more »
Well, Snaps!
By basd on Aug 20, 2010 | In linux, cloud computing
OK, I'm legally too old to say, "snaps" to anything. But in any event, I wanted Thunderbird to connect to my office Windows Exchange server. Which it doesn't. Howsomever, I came across DavMail. As this is sort of a server-connector type thing, it see… more »
