So one day one wakes up and thinks about getting hat about a “new” operating system? So I installed OpenSuse. It was the worst two days of my life.
So, back to Ubuntu Dapper Drake. It seems that both Edgy, Feisty and all other distros featuring the latest crappy Xorg server don’t play along with the […]

And one day something terrible happens.
The server which this site was running on (and a few others) had a few problems with the mainboard power module and started shutting down every now and then. It is a mini-ATX system using some kind of proprietary power supply (which was replaced promptly for an identical one - […]

is this supposed to be an Ubuntu related joke or what?
XKCD rocks!

Since the last post, I’ve been gradually switching to Ubuntu. Most of the time has been spent trying to figure out alternatives, hacks and secret hallways into the depths of Google. It sure is conforting to see the beast Ubuntu is becoming and watch as (most of the times) all my doubts are vanished and […]

These may be the first (and last) vacations I’m bringing the laptop along and happily connected for a few hours a day, so I committed to do something unusual like planning migrating every WindowsXP laptop back home (3 of them) to Ubuntu. Heck, if I get lucky and manage to sell one of them I’m considering buying a MacBookPro to replace it. I’ve been using Ubuntu for a while now on the home server (or should I say “I’m using Debian” since I’m not using X?) and I’m pretty satisfied with it (so far).

Since the UbuntuWiki doesn’t mention a word about the Toshiba Tecra M1 I normally use for work, I’ve started this as a repository for the steps I’ve plunged into. This is a draft of the contents I’m about to submit there too. Work in progress. A lot of dumb theories founded by several years of absolutely no contact with Linux on the desktop front.

So here’s what I did.