Lately I’ve had the urge to play Rise of Nations. Yes it’s a Microsoft game, but I don’t really have a problem with their game department overall. But back to RON, I tried installing in Wine knowing that it probably wouldn’t work well but I had my fingers crossed anyways. As it turned out the […]

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Recently, my laptop had been running extremly slowly and taking forever to startup. Unfortunatly, I have had no time to do anything over the holiday break about this. Of course, when I finally had time to sit and go through my recently taken picture and videos and figure out why my computer was so slow, […]

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Most people that are in the Linux community know about Microsoft’s president, Steve Ballmer, making statements that Linux violates several Microsoft IPs and Copyrights. There have even been some companies that have made deals with Microsoft to protect their customers from this.
I was reading PC World today and there was a little blurb about this […]

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I found a neat intro on the net for gddrescue. For those who don’t know, which is probably most of you, gddrescue is a Debian package that lets you recover data from a damaged hard drive. I’ve never used it and haven’t had to recover data since I started using Linux tools to fix computers […]

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If you’ve read the post over at Naked Linux, you know that I mostly do my work in Windows now. It’s been almost two weeks with only Windows XP on my laptop and I decided to sit down and think if I wanted to dual boot again. The short answer is no. The long answer […]

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So someone figured out how to install Direct X 9.0c using Wine. This is a friggin’ huge step in the right direction for gamers out there that want to use Linux. I have no idea how well it works, but hopefully you can get close if not perfect windows-like speeds. Here’s  the link.

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