I’m very very sorry to say that I just edited a picture in Micrsoft Paint on my virtual machine (running Win 2K) because it was quicker than loading and using the GIMP.
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Personally I’ve had a varied experience with Twitter over the past 6 months. Indeed if you read my first few posts (I’m called arfab on there too!) then you will see that for quite a while I really just didn’t see the point. One thing I’d like to attribute this to is the fact that [...]
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For someone who in the past has wasted a lot of time hopping between different GNU/Linux distributions in the past I now have to think of a number of reasons before changing again, just so that I know I’m not just slipping into old habits.
Buying a brand new laptop can be a fairly problematic process [...]
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Yesterday I read a post on OSNews (here) and one particular line caught my attention:
“some believe that Microsoft’s recent patent lawsuit against TomTom is a prelude to an all-out legal assault on Linux”
(I just realised it is in fact the opening sentence!)
This got me thinking (surprise surprise!)… As a follow on from my recent long [...]
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I’ve been playing a lot with virtual machines lately. Its something I’ve been curious about for a while but due to limited power on my older computers I couldn’t play with it properly. Now that I’ve got my new laptop I can, and works pretty nicely. I opted to use VirtualBox to run the [...]
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