I don’t use Windows® much anymore, but when I did I got a lot of good freeware pointers from the newsgroup alt.comp.freeware. For many years now, the group has put together a list of freeware called the Pricelessware List. For the last five years, folks there have also compiled CDs with a lot of the [...]
I have a GeForce 8600 GTS so I need nVidia’s binary driver. (Well, for values of “need” which include needing to run at full resolution and have a tolerable display.) Just downloading and running the installer from nVidia has worked up to now for me with Slackware, but not this time, after I had compiled [...]
I’m not very savvy when it comes to finding the best deals on air travel. I needed to book a flight, and my plan was to try Expedia, Travelocity, and Orbitz to see who’d give me the best deal and just take that. Expedia was down for maintenance and said it would be [...]
Despite my hatred of web forums, there are some I need to visit fairly regularly. For example, while I generally use Gentoo’s user mailing list if I have a question, searching the Gentoo forums can turn up a lot of good info. It also turns up a lot of avatars I don’t want [...]
I was just about to go on a rant about why I hate web forums. There are more than one reason, but, but:
‘Nuff said.