Amazing. Amazing on two fronts. First that I have actually gotten off my bum and decided to make another post, and secondly that I have finally decided to pull the trigger on getting a new laptop. I am one of those guys who likes to talk himself out of making a purchase, even though I […]
I am no stranger to replacing bad equipment in servers, desktops and laptops, but some laptops don’t make it easy. This was one. A couple years ago I swapped out an aging hdd in an older Dell Inspiron with a new ssd and, boy, the performance improved drastically. Lately, I have been using a new(er) […]
A few years ago when I was in the market for a new laptop I picked up one of the then wildly popular and cheap Dell Inspiron 1545. There are gobs of these running around now and you can find them cheap if you look (click the pic for links to Amazon). I used this […]
I spent an entire night in frustration with this so if anyone has any ideas, I am all ears. I upgraded my Linux install from Mint 13 (yes I know – old) to a fresh v15. After a couple hours the lappy locks up hard, and I mean hard. Video still running but nothing else […]
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Just a quickie update post before I forget. I mentioned one of the things I was still waiting for before I would start using Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon Edition in earnest was the keyboard shortcuts needed to be fixed. Well, apparently that is not a priority because they are still broken. A quick search in […]
Woo! It has been a while since I posted about any linuxy things here and I was just going to veg today, but I promised 🙂 It’s no secret that I have had a thing for Linux Mint for quite a while. It is a solid reliable distribution that “just works” and, personally, it’s the […]
Tonight on the TechShow I will reveal some **super secret** information from Clem regarding Linux Mint 14! Tune in tonight, Wednesday November 28th at 8:30pm EDT! Get directions at http://tllts.org.
WTH Mint-14!? Cinnamon runs at 17% cpu (doing NOTHING), Gnome3 at 7.x%, xfce at 2.x% and Fluxbox at 0.x%… GAHHH! FIX ME PLEASE!!!
I really love Mint, just let me get that out of that way first. That being said, there are usually a couple things I catch, per release, that filter down from Ubuntu, that I wish were taken care of before Mint hits my desktop. This time it is DNS. I installed Mint 13 and was […]