Sometimes an attempt to see through tech marketing, sometimes just a sci/tech blog
A popular distro is Mint. It’s a great distro, I have it installed on my home theatre. It’s great because all the apps are up-to-date (without being bleeding-edge and unstable), and I can chuck as many applications as I like Continue Reading
As you know, I have been looking for an ideal distro for installation on to a USB stick. The biggest hurdle for the distros is to recognise my devices, which include a finger/pen touch screen, a mouse touchpad, stereo speakers, Continue Reading
Yesterday’s and today’s grueling ordeal with a sluggish Mint installation got me to thinking: Mint isn’t really for small-scale installations. It’s meant to install on a normal PC, on the native hard drive. So, then what Linux distros are out Continue Reading
Right now, I am struggling with an installation of Mint which is slow and clunky. Of course, I am expecting a lot. I want this thing to run on a 32G thumb drive, entirely from the thumb drive, with 2Gigs Continue Reading
The Canadian One-Cent piece will no longer be minted as of this coming fall. Being a coin collector, that all at once robs me of future “low cost” collecting opportunities (known as rummaging through my change), while providing me with Continue Reading