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Comment on Is Linux Ready For The Desktop? by pattern

pattern — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:10:23 +0000

Note to self, skip the HTML and just type the URL. Who would have thought that?

Thanks again, Larry, this is some great info to get me started. I have Ubuntu installed at the moment and the real show stopper is getting it to mount the Windows partition, a trivial thing with every other distro I have tried. I know the info is out there. I have also proven I can use a command prompt by changing my boot order.

Ths is going to be good.

Comment on Is Linux Ready For The Desktop? by pattern

pattern — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:51:20 +0000

Wow thanks, Larry, and aren’t those spammers just a pain?

Actually I was trying to leave a few links in the body of my post, is that not what bloggers are supposed to do? I was hoping to link to http://notetab.com/ and http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=1 at the very least. Now watch, this will work and my comment will be tagged as spam for too many links!

Comment on Is Linux Ready For The Desktop? by Larry Hamilton

Larry Hamilton — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:36:52 +0000

WINE can be found here: http://www.winehq.com/. They have great documentation. If your distribution does not pre-load wine, Wine HQ will have links to the packages and instructions for installation. It is a lot easier than it was even a year ago. Open a command prompt and type “wine –help” to learn if it is installed. If it is installed, you can run a Windows exe by right-clicking and then clicking “Open with Wine Windows Emulator”. Depending on your distribution, you may have to install the Windows program before it runs.

Firefox bookmarks use the Netscape bookmarks.html file. Just copy it to the right location in your Firefox directory in your home directory. Usually it is /home/username/.mozilla/firefox/something.default/bookmarks.html. Note the dot in from of directory names indicate a hidden directoy. It depends on your version of Windows where your Firefox bookmarks are located.

PHP comes installed or is easy to install on most distributions. To find if you have it installed open a command prompt and type “php -v” without the quotes. Or “whereis php”.

Comment on Is Linux Ready For The Desktop? by Larry Hamilton

Larry Hamilton — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:16:52 +0000

I am not completely sure why the link did not work. I have comments set for moderation only, so I do not get comment spam. I have approved your comment and fixed the link from your comment on my blog post back to yours.

Comment on Is Linux Ready For The Desktop? by pattern

pattern — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 02:23:13 +0000

WordPress is supposed to be user-friendly, can anybody point me towards how to create a working link? Are we protecting me from myself here? Whatever…

Comment on Night Life by pattern

pattern — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 02:06:36 +0000

Hi spindizy,
Oddly, the longer I dread something the less horrible it usually seems to turn out. Not sure if it is any way to live a life, but there it is

Comment on Night Life by spindizy

spindizy — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 04:15:10 +0000

I always assume the worst, well I should never say always, but thats a discussion for another post.. But, anyway, I regularly expect the worst, that way when good things happen, while im expecting the worst, I get pleasntly surprised. However if bad things happen while im expecting the worst, I’m not surprised at all.

Comment on Hello world! by Mr WordPress

Mr WordPress — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:33:24 +0000

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