Four days ago on April 14, 2012, Xfce 4.10 pre 2 was released. It's been a while since 4.8 was released, so let's see how it's going.more

I'm a fan of Arch Linux. A big reason for that (for me at least) is that Arch doesn't do everything for you. For the most part, I'm a self-taught Linux user, so the more things that aren't done for me, the better. In that light, I of course have discovered yet another thing that has not been done for …more

This week I have been trying to upgrade my MariaDB instance to latest and have been having some problems with getting it to compile right. My first issue was that it couldn't find the ncurses libraries, so I had to grab and compile the source for that (I'm trying to run everything in userspace). Once I did that, I specified …more

My fiance has a Sansa Fuze. It works well for her most of the time, except when she wants to synchronize her playlists with it. She also uses Media Monkey for her library management. Apparently, in recent months Media Monkey has made various updates to their software that have broken all kinds of stuff (making updates now mandatory of course …more

Yesterday, I had an idea that remarkably enough, actually worked (go figure, huh). I have a few friends who use Linux on their desktops but aren't quite Linux gurus (but who am I kidding, neither am I as evidenced by this post). Don't get me wrong of course, I'm super proud to have friends that aren't IT people but use …more