I have spent two days with my new laptop, the LC2210Si from LinuxCertified.

About 1 1/2 years ago, I began experimenting with the various docks available to Linux which utilize Compiz's 3D offerings. I saw this as one more way to add a "wow" factor to show off Linux to others.

Welcome to the world of free video tutorials for your free software

Again I'm in the awkward position of having to apologize for my cable company and their failing service lately. Service went out this morning about 8:30 and didn't return until almost 4 this afternoon.

It started with the hints of death of my Dell XPS 1330, a pattern I found discussed in a few forums online … the pattern is, first the adapter no longer is recognized as serving the appropriate wattage. (Which powers the laptop, but at a lower CPU rate and will not charge the battery. Bought a replacement adapter, and it worked for nearly a week, when it, too, failed with the dreaded message upon boot up. The next pattern is overheating, then motherboard failure. So, I began my quest for a replacement.

One of my stories made LinuxPlanet's Top 10 Linux Planet Stories 2009. Maybe I'll get some more work there this year.

Since my recent retirement from 34 years of mathematics and computer science teaching, I've been working on creating creating screencasts for teaching how to use various kinds of computer software. So, I need to record my screen while narrating audio. What follows is my story of what it takes to do this under Linux.

I guess you might have noticed we were offline today and the connection is still very spotty right now (will connect, but drops after a few seconds). There's a lineman supposed to come sometime tomorrow maybe, you know how that goes. I am sorry for the trouble and hope we'll be back up soon. Just keep trying. Don't forget about tuxmachines while we're down.

After reading an article recently on a similar topic, I got to thinking about what I was introduced to relating to computers when I was in school.

I was in high school when I got my first real introduction to computers.

This is a Newyear gift to all Open source Lovers..We all love penguin right? It is not enough to be a real Linux Geek, if you really want to impress then you must have a Linux mascot in your apparment.. This image tells how to make tux linux penguin in less than 15 minutes.All u have to do is print this image , cut it out and then glue according to the numbers printed on it.Thats all…The paper tux linux penguin is ready..
Read more here ..

Dear friends,

Tuxmachines is our site for news and we love it! Just think about the great performance, stability, pleasure, and swift news postings you have got used to reading. srlinuxx is working relentlessly, day and night, to provide us the latest and finest news articles. And all this for free! But she, as anyone of us, has bills to pay and needs to eat and drink something to keep up this fantastic work, right? Don't you want to express your gratitude for your everyday trusted news site? Wouldn't it be great to make this year a very special one for srlinuxx? Yes? Now is your chance to finally get rid of your qualms and do something you wanted to do for a long time: Go and say Thank you and Happy New Year to srlinux for all her time, effort, and hard work so she can continue providing you the best news site out there!

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P.S. Happy Birthday srlinuxx.

When I was installing and testing Mandriva 2010 Cooker (new development) releases this last Fall season, I kept having persistent problems with sound. Eventually, the advice in the Mandriva Cooker forum for KDE users became: "Disable Pulseaudio, and set Xine as the preferred back end over GStreamer (in the KDE multimedia settings).

We've suffered two occurrences of downtime within the last 4 days due to loss of electrical service in the area.

A GUIDE TO SHIFT FROM WINDOWS TO LINUX EASILY, AND A LIST OF PROGRAMS YOU SHOULD NOT MISS.

If you are (or were) an Ubuntu user and haven't voted in our latest poll, I ask that you please consider doing so now.