Upgrading the OS should never break things on your system. The upgrade from Dapper to Edgy was fairly painless, but not without problems. Here are a few I encountered. When finalizing and proceeding to write my partitions, gparted reported there was "no root file system." This was really annoying and I ...
Kevin Jarrett asked on Edtech how we synchronize files between school and home pc's. He shares his solution using an external hard drive and software. I responded with my solution using Unison and thought I'd share a little more detail here. I use Unison because I work on ...
One of my goals for this year is to improve how I manage all the "stuff" in my life. Confession: I'm a professional procrastinator. I considered attending a workshop on procrastination/time management, but lately I've been reading up on Getting Things Done (GTD) and it sounds like a system ...
TheOpenCD has released version 3.0, which includes a live CD based on Ubuntu linux. If you are not familiar with live CD's, they allow you to test drive an operating system without touching your hard drive--just put in the CD, reboot, and play with a new OS. When ...
