This morning while going through the news the RSS app that I was using froze. I managed to save the selected stories but was in no hurry to try reopening the app. Instead, I installed Lubuntu, a Linux distro, alongside Windows 10. I wanted to install Lubuntu alongside Windows 7 but hard drive partitioning incompatibilities… Read More Is Microsoft losing its way?
I was up ’till about 6 a.m. installing Linux on a very old computer that literally took hours to get the job done and updated. Awakened around 9 a.m. I find myself running on 3 hrs sleep. Not recommended! There’s no way I could comment on the news right now so I thought I’d just… Read More Do not attempt this at home!
Originally posted on Just My Stuff:
The dreamer is stoned on hashish given to him by the Count After trying out a whole bunch of e-reading options I have pretty much settled on Calibre. I know that I lauded ReadEra a few days ago. And it is a great app. But my tablet isn’t all…
Trying out a book Reader app, installing software, and posting thru the WordPress app for Android (which I don’t normally do). You can see the e-reader app, middle right. It’s called ReadEra and I am quite taken with it. The text is customizable, as is the background. I’m reading The Count of Monte Cristo, and… Read More It’s a long weekend, I’m taking it easy and…
Windows 7 users will know that the Microsoft crew sent out carefully orchestrated messages trying to make us feel unsafe and out of touch. Windows 7 is reaching the end, they said. Time to buy a new computer because your old one is no good anymore. Total load of b.s. Many newer computers factory loaded… Read More We’re dropping Windows for Lubuntu!
Mission accomplished! We’ll be back to our news and opinion asap… 🙂
After trying Linux we couldn’t get back into Windows. I like Linux but it has some limitations. Thanks to a free prog called DBAN we were able to wipe our HD and start again. I have done this before so wasn’t really nail-biting, pulling out my hair like in earlier attempts. As long as our… Read More It won’t be long now…
