Sunday, January 08 2012 11:28:16 PM

http://www.raspberrypi.org/ Raspberry Pi is going to be released in a couple weeks. 25$ single board computer running Linux with enough horsepower to be useful.

Sunday, December 18 2011 03:56:34 PM

Tomorrow morning marks the annual automobile trip to Michigan.

Thursday, December 15 2011 11:28:23 PM

Hitchens is dead. I can recommend "Hitch 21" and "Arguably."

Thursday, November 17 2011 10:29:57 PM

Audio/Volume control keyboard shortcuts in Xfce configuration
To control the volume settings in Xfce with keyboard shortcuts, you have to assign the following commands in the "Application Shortcuts" section of the "Keyboard" configuration menu to corresponding shortcuts:

amixer set Master 5+ : increase volume
amixer set Master 5- : decrease volume
amixer set Master toggle : mute/unmute volume switch

Thursday, November 17 2011 10:24:38 PM

xfce is so much nicer than KDE. I'm not switching back, ever.

Thursday, November 17 2011 11:12:51 AM

I'm switching to xfce. KDE has been my desktop for several years now, but it's a bloated pig. On my 4 processor system it takes several seconds for the dock to respond to mouse clicks.

Friday, November 04 2011 11:49:29 PM

Just about ready to give up KDE in favor of xfce4. KDE is too slow and too big. It takes several seconds to respond to mouse clicks. Google isn't helping.