The (Other) End of the Internet

Welcome back!I need to take a break from griping about my computer troubles, so now I’m going to gripe about our cat, Max.
I shouldn’t gripe, actually. This cat supplies us with a lot of entettainment, as well as reason to wonder about him. Max will, for reasons only he knows, spend as much as an […]

…and it’s doing a WONDERFUL job of it!
I have tried to install Ubuntu Linux as part of a dual-boot on my desktop computer no less than SEVEN times. Here is the tutorial I am using as a guide.
All I can get it to do is sit and wave that blinding neon orange (YUK) bar back […]

Looking at the title of this post, would you care to venture a guess as to what my mood is like right now? Here are the details about what happened, since you asked. Didn’t ask? Sure you did. Shut up and read.
I found this tutorial explaining how to dual boot linux and XP when XP […]

The other day I was looking for a suggestion for rearranging partitions so I could dual boot my desktop machine. One person suggested I boot from Ubuntu’s LiveCD and use the partition editor included there, so I looked into that possibility last night and remembered a problem I have with that drive.
The reason my primary […]

Recently I got the chance to fiddle around with Ubuntu Linux and I kind of like it. I liked it enough that I’d like to install it on my desktop machine so I can actually use the real thing instead of a live CD or a virtual machine. However, I’m not sure I like it […]