The Trench Reynolds Report

  • Charlotte Wordcamp

    I had the opportunity and pleasure yesterday to attend Charlotte Wordcamp. Basically it was a meeting of bloggers to discuss ideas and network. You can read an article about it here. If you’re a blogger and you have a chance to attend a Wordcamp do it. If you do go I strongly urge you to…

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  • An open letter to blog developers

    Can we please get a standard export format for blogs. If I want to export from WordPress to Serendipity or vice versa I should be able to without having to chew off my arm in frustration. Keeping bloggers trapped to your format doesn’t help anyone.

    Trench Reynolds

  • Linux help needed

    Ok Linuxheads, I need your help. I have an old Toshiba Portege 7100 that I think is from 1999. It has a 500mhz processor and 99MB of RAM. I need a micro mini Linux distro that will run on it. I’ve tried the following and only one of them worked but I’m not going to…

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  • Asus eee PC

    Thanks to the economic stimulus program I’m the proud new owner of the Asus Eee PC. A 2GB Surf model w/o webcam because I’m a cheap bastard. I’m very happy with it. I like the built-in Xandros Linux OS even in basic mode. The keyboard takes a little getting used to. My only real complaint…

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  • Trench’s further adventures in Linux

    So when we last left off our intrepid hero said he was going to give PCLinuxOS another try and I did. I’ve upgraded my opinion of it somewhat. I got it customized enough to where it really looked slick. I loved that it used Synaptic as a package manager. However, the latest dealbreaker was that…

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  • PCLinuxOS MiniMe

    Yesterday I complained about PCLinuxOS and how I thought it was a buggy and ugly distro and how I couldn’t even get MiniMe to boot to my laptop. On the urging of a commenter (which is rare around here), I gave PCLinuxOS, specifically MiniMe, another try. I found the command I needed to get it…

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  • My Linux weekend

    Ok, so I spent most of my weekend trying out some new Linux distros. New to me anyway. First up was PCLinuxOS and their 2007 release. I don’t know why PCLinuxOS is so highly touted. I found it to be clunky, buggy and ugly. Then I realized I’m supposed to be trying PCLinuxOS MiniMe. I…

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  • OpenSUSE

    So last night I gave OpenSUSE a try. Trying Linux distros has become my new smoking. Anyway, I didn’t care for it. I couldn’t get past the start menu, or quickstart, or whatever it’s called. I’m too used to not having to click on a start menu to get it to drill down. If someone…

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  • Linux Mint

    If anybody cares what OS I’m running at home I use Linux Mint. It’s like Ubuntu only not as ugly.

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