Posted on May 2, 2008, 4:39 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
3D.
There are dozens of blogs and websites passionately ranting or raving about KDE (passion is one thing that the open-source community seldom lacks). As I have been using the latest Kubuntu Hardy Heron for almost a week, so I think I am ready to form an opinion about it. Here goes… My second day with […]
Posted on April 27, 2008, 6:11 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Etc.
Back in the 90s, I used to install and reinstall Windows 95 over and over again due to one reason or another (and I am sure it was the same for any Windows user). The last time I did a clean install, though, was 2 years ago, when I bought this laptop and killed the […]
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Posted on April 25, 2008, 6:18 PM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Etc.
I just finished a clean install of Kubuntu Hardy Heron + KDE4 on my dual-boot laptop (Dell Inspiron 9400). My initial plan was to upgrade my Gutsy installation, but my harddisk was almost out of space, and upon research, I found out that resizing an ext3 Linux partition that is after an NTFS partition physically […]
Posted on March 23, 2008, 6:11 PM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Books,
Etc,
Life.
As I suddenly found myself using Linux as my primary OS last year, I had to do something about my bookworm’ey itch, and tried a few solutions to the lack of Microsoft Reader on Linux. I tried using a second computer as my “book computer” – 50 minutes of work, one chapter of a book […]
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