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The Linux Chronicles – Download Managers
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Yesterday was spent looking for download managers and getting “Free Download Manager”, the best damned download manager on the net, running under Wine. It was refreshing to have a day of success. For those of you who are not familiar, a download manager is a program that runs outside of your browser (or in the [...]
Posted by neonjohn on January 26th, 2009 under Computing | 1 Comment »
The Linux Chronicles – Wine and…
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Well, Irfanview in this case :-) Anyone who has used Irfanview knows that it’s the best image viewer and lightweight editor out there. It’s fast, handy and the photo correction functions can do some amazing things to photos. Only problem for us Linux fans is, it’s a windows-only application. To run windows applications under Linux, [...]
Posted by neonjohn on January 25th, 2009 under Computing | 3 Comments »
The Linux Chronicles – In-Progress Report
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The last few posts have been awash in details. I thought that it would be a good time to sit back and evaluate the effort to date. In the beginning I proposed to prove or disprove this hypothesis: An ordinary users of modest computer skills can install Linux and then do productive work with it. [...]
Posted by neonjohn on January 22nd, 2009 under Computing | Comment now »
The Linux Chronicles – Day 4 and 5
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Frustration Central These have been two extremely frustrating days. I’ve focused mostly on one thing – getting web editing software up and running so that I can edit my website. Kind of a core functionality. I’m dismayed and confused by the sorry state of web site management under Ubuntu. Notice I said web site management [...]
Posted by neonjohn on January 20th, 2009 under Computing | 2 Comments »
