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TechLog for the ‘open source’ Category

Firefox Security – My Way

Do you trust your web browser of choice? Do you frequently make online purchases or bank online? If the answer to both of these is yes… and you use that same PC for most or all of your other work and play, what do you do to protect yourself from online threats?
My first line of [...]

OpenOffice.org 3.2 ~ a Karmic Koala Upgrade

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OpenOffice.org 3.2 was just released. I wanted to get mine upgraded ASAP because of the 46% reduction in cold start time. If you haven’t heard of or seen OpenOffice.org before then check it out; its a Microsoft Office alternative that can actually replace MS Office. If you are interested in downloading OpenOffice.org for yourself, you [...]

Ubuntu 9.10

I haven’t posted any tech articles in a long time so I wanted to take a few moments to update everyone on my Ubuntu usage. I have my laptop dual booted with WinXP SP3 and Ubuntu 9.10… best decision I ever made, and I am thinking of killing my XP partition to save some much [...]

Don’t lose those memories!

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Have you ever suffered data loss from your PC at home? It can be frustrating trying to retrieve all those photos and documents, and its even more frustrating if you can’t. Time and time again, people need their PCs repaired and they don’t have a backup of any of their files, and they always say [...]