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Beryl-Themes.org

Beryl-Themes.org   Lots of good stuff here. After getting used to Beryl at home, I truly HATE working on my XP desktop when I’m in the office. I’ve spent quite a while working with classic asp, and am working more and more in .net, but I would likely drop it all for open source languages if I [...]

LinuxMCE returns – Download Squad

LinuxMCE returns – Download Squad LinuxMCE sounds promising. When I tried to get MythTV installed on Fedora (core 4 or 5, i don’t recall) I spent most of my time fighting to get hardware recognized and working… I finally got everything working after a few weeks just to wipe it clean and install win XP [...]

My Current Desktop

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My Current Desktop

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Mono Project

Mono Project Now you can write AND run .net code on pretty much anything, for free. With Mono’s newest release, you can use Visual Basic. I’m not sure why you would want to, but you can if you feel the urge.

Quick Reference Bash

Quick Reference Bash Heres a handy little list of common bash commands. It is by no means exhaustive, but it is a good link to have if you are new to finding your way around the linux command line.

Still liking Fedora

Its been over a week now, and I can’t say I have missed windows at all. I started out with gnome as it installs by default, even though I’ve always preferred KDE. After a few days, I installed KDE too. I remembered instantly why I like it so much. KDE just seems so much more [...]

Fedora

I ran into some issues with Windows Firewall (which I disabled) last night, so I trashed windows and installed Fedora Core 6. It took about an hour to get the whole thing installed (including openoffice and more development tools than I know how to use). About 15 minutes later, my browser was good to go [...]