When pressed to answer truthfully, most parents agree that raising kids is a big experiment. In the December 2004 issue of LJ, Diego Betancor's letter motivated me to experiment with something I've ...

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In the last couple of weeks we’ve seen the announcement or release of a number of new products: the iPad Mini, an updated version of the full-size iPad, and Microsoft’s Windows 8 and Surface tablet. A ...

The following are the highlights — and lowlights — of my adventures over the past 36 hours or so with the new Compaq 15 laptop which I picked up recently, Windows 8.1 and UEFI BIOS/boot. I started ...

What followed was a wild but fun whirlwind tour of Linux distros. I quickly felt that Linux Mint wasn't for me, and so, I ...

Haha, that topic sounds pretty dodgy, but it's best I could think of.<P>Basically, I'm experimenting to see if I can use Linux for everyday use. instead of Windows. So far this means, email, browsing, ...

All I wanted to do was shut off the fucking backlighting on my Roccat keyboard. The wave of everchanging color has driven me nuts from Day One. No support for this keyboard exists in roccat-tools, and ...

Each Hewlett-Packard thin client unit is priced at $550, while the Fedora machines cost about $720. The national equipment hire company also switched from IBM's Lotus Notes to Microsoft Outlook for ...

Microsoft is doing more than adding a native version of the Bash shell to Windows; it's paving the way for Linux development directly on Windows During the keynote presentation at today’s Build ...

In my previous post I gave a basic introduction to the i3 Window Manager, with some simple examples of opening and managing windows and using a few basic utilities. Now I would like to expand on that, ...