This is really good news. As I noted in my last post, my old Acer notebook died recently, and I had come to appreciate the value of a second computer (my old pal Paddy Doyle had been preaching this for years), but was baulking at a second notebook. So I was looking askance at a [...]
When you’ve been with Ubuntu a while, the little reminders of Windows can be a source of mild irritation. I mean, what is one to do with the Windows Key in Ubuntu? Well, as it happens, here’s what, thanks to How-to-geek: Ubuntu has a dropdown menu at the top of the screen to launch applications, [...]
In the scale of hard times, failing to install an operating system, especially when one has a backup of another computer, is small change. It can wear you out, though, and I’ve spent several long nights failing. I try to think of Beckett’s Westward Ho (‘No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.’). I attempted [...]
Plus ca change. Still thinking about upgrading Ubuntu and still haven’t got the time. However, looking ahead, I’m trying to figure out partitions again. Nip over to Psychocats for a few hints. One of them is to run sudo fdisk -l in the terminal. you@yourcomputer:~$ sudo fdisk -l Password: RESULT: Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 [...]