Month: October 2006
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What is really needed these days for a computer?
Seems like everything I do these on the computer requires only the following: Open Office .org – for writing documents/spreadsheets etc… Thunderbird – for email Firefox – web browsing For IRC, I’m using MIRC, as that works under wine. I also now have discovered bluefish. Which is a graphical text editor with syntax highlighting. Excellent…
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Organization and getting things done, a combination of systems.
I’m trying out the 43 folders system. Plenty of websites out there that show you how to use this system. Along with this other system, which prioritizes tasks into priorities. Important and Urgent. Urgent Important Other Tasks definition of Important of great significance or value; “important people”; “the important questions of the day” significant: important…
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howto: Getting EMC LiveCD. Ubuntu dapper drake
Windows to EMC Live First, download the iso image. source, alternatively the mirror. 1.) unzip/copy md5sum.exe into the same folder/directory as emc2-ubuntu6.06-desktop-i386.iso 2.) in a dos window… type “md5sum emc2-ubuntu6.06-desktop-i386.iso” without quotes. This may take a few minutes. 3.) Compare the result to this “6ee5048eb9cb424aa030dfedccc5386b” without quotes. 4.) if they match, burn the image (google,…