Five reasons for Windows users to move to Linux
Take back your power As the October deadline for dumping Windows 10 is fast approaching, many users are considering their options. This is for many...
Breaking News – M$ Allows older computers to install Windows 11
Microsoft has finally bowed to the inevitable and changed their draconian stance on older computers. They'll now allow older computers to install Windows 11 despite...
Why does M$ require so much personal information?
Microsoft is really getting insistent about requiring an account before you can install new versions of Windows. They're even blocking known circumventions in order to...
It should be fun
Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun...
Moving from Windows 10 to Linux
Instead of purchasing a new computer just to run a new version of Windows, consider installing Linux.
Don’t skip the learning process
Using AI as a tool to do a thing still relies on knowing how to do the thing yourself.
What Robbie the Robot can teach us about AI
Way back in 1956, when I was ten years old, my parents took my brother and I to a drive-in movie theater to see the...
What our system maintenance this past weekend says about Linux
I've been thinking a lot about the system maintenance I performed on Saturday, February 22. Prior to that day, I thought about what needed to...
Looking forward to 2025
The end of the year is always a good time to look forward to the next year -- and so I will look at a...
Microsoft Recall still captures your data
Even with "sensitive information" supposedly blocked I don't usually opine about Microsoft, or rant, but this is just ... there are no words. But I'll...
How to untangle the systemd-resolved DNS mess
The change from the venerable nsswitch and NetworkManager to systemd-resolved has damaged and slowed name services. The result of this resolver change was apparent in a number of symptoms. Inability to find the addresses of most remote servers resulting in timeouts was the most noticeable. When the connections were made, They were very slow to respond. I didn’t really understand how much slower until after I fixed the problem.
Do I really need to know how to compile the Linux kernel?
Most lists of things we do to learn Linux ignore the bits you don’t really need to do. Here is one I can suggest you...
Beachy thoughts: Many ways to solve a problem
I'm always thinking about solving problems and the beach doesn't change that. It's kind of the way my mind works. It's also the way life...
When STEM becomes STEAM
For the last two years I've been invited to staff a table at a local STEM Saturday event for school kids, and to present at...
Windows security just got worse
Well, it didn't really get any worse, we just found another way in which it's already horrible. Like you, I woke up Friday morning to...