Baldy’s Paradox

One man’s tale of how Windows screwed up a RAIDed drive configuration and the Linux community rallied round to fix it. WARNING: The following heartfelt love story is a nerdfest of extreme proportions. Enjoy.

(And you thought that that your IT guy had it easy. Like it says a nerd fest but really funny to read,if you have ever had to go through this, the trials and tribulations of the IT Dept,Baldy)

Why I love Linux

After a long wait, the first official Stable version of Elive, 1.0, has finally been released! This version is ready for the end-users and not just hard core testers. It is a more intuitive easy to use and more efficient system. It has better integration of the file-manager and the mime-types, a nice kernel especially for multimedia and big processes loads, a light weight foot print, much better compatibility with your (possible) Windows system/software, more hardware supported, better graphical recognition, and many more things.. LinuxQuestions.org has a nice collection of Elive Gem 1.0 SP1 screenshots.

Elive Gem 1.0 Screenshots

MEPIS has announced the ‘Spartacus’ release of antiX, a lightweight derivative of MEPIS. AntiX is built and maintained by MEPIS a community member, as a free version of MEPIS for very old 32-bit PC…

(Here are a couple of screenshots for you folks,Baldy)

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antiX MEPIS 6.5 Screenshots

Your GNU/Linux computer is an amazing machine. It can display images. It can run programs. It can perform dozens of functions all at the same time. How can you keep track of all this activity? By monitoring the processes that your computer runs, and one of the best ways to monitor and control processes is by using the command line.

Long ago computers were like calculators—they did one thing at a time—but today’s computers can multi-task doing hundreds of things at the same time. The different tasks share processor time. This is why you can search the web while writing a paper and listening to music all on the same computer at the same time.

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