Linux 15 years on

This month marks the 15th anniversary of my foray into Linux. It all began with the mention of the word Linux on a BBS I frequented in Bisbee, Arizona (I lived in Douglas, AZ at the time). Not long after that I chanced upon a book entitled “Using Linux.[*]” I bought the book and installed [...]

Old Games For Sale – Legit!

GOG, if you haven’t heard, is a way to purchase older games that work on newer systems. Many of the games are from the late 90′s and early 2000′s (although there are a few older than that), designed for either MS-DOS or the MS-Windows 9x line of operating systems. As such, some of the games [...]

OpenSUSE Meanderings

At work we debated adding OpenSUSE 11 as an officially supported platform[ 1]. In the past, when doing this, I’ve preferred using the targeted platform exclusively for an extended period. For various reasons, this hasn’t been feasible this time. While testing time has been devoted to it, that doesn’t give one the same familiarity as [...]

Get Counted!

Years ago, I registered my Linux workstation with the Linux Counter project. Each year I receive a reminder from them to update my registration. Which I have, even adding servers and more workstations. Each year I marvel at the usability issues of the site, which (according to my memory) has looked the same for the [...]