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Every once in awhile you just do something dumb. Most people keep these things kind of quiet, but I thought it was funny enough to mention. While setting up a LAN in the office for computer testing, and ‘Ghosting’ images I set up the switch and jacked it into the network. I then ran all the lines to the individual computers we were going to be working on and made sure they were able to pick up the connection. At about that time my colleague stopped by and off we went to lunch. After stuffing myself full of the finest pizza in Ozark Arkansas, (its called Zacks Place if you ever stop by, thats the place to go.) we came back to the office to start playing with our LAN. My partners cell phone rang, a teacher was having some weird difficulties with one of the online programs. That’s when all hell broke loose. Continue reading ‘Bonehead Maneuvers: Networking at Its Best’

Many of you have read/listened to me go on and on about the joys and value of Linux, and I want to go on record as still supporting that ideology, however I have reached a problem spot in my Linux Life. Like so many in the computer field, I have had to stop and re-evaluate my OS usage based on my vocational change. As the Systems Administrator for Arkansas Tech University I had a few more liberties where my OS choice was concerned. Most of our systems were somewhat Web 2.0 based and were only dependent on my choice of browsers. Since all our systems were pretty much compliant with Firefox AND MS Internet Explorer I was more free to use Linux. FTP applications, and web-coding applications did not matter as long as they had the correct file extensions. Linux, (or more appropriately Ubuntu) was more than an idea it was a reality. Then the job change came. Continue reading ‘Suse: Good Idea,,,,,Sort Of’

After quite a few glitches with installing Ubuntu 7.04 feisty on my new Dell Latitude D830 laptop I was about ready to give up and go with Suse.  It’s not that I was completely un-happy with Ubuntu, I still think its one of the best Linux varieties out there, it’s just that their builds had not yet caught up with some of the newer hardware and technology.  You may remember my post on just getting the ‘X-Windows’ system portion of the build to work correctly.  Ubuntu included fixes for the Intel graphics card in the ‘Gutsy’ build, but it is not a stable release yet, and I don’t really want to be on the edge of beta testing when it comes to that kind of thing because it usually robs you of all your time.  Time is one of those things I really don’t have much to spare.  However, while messing around on my XP desktop, (Yes I keep XP around to play a single game that I can’t get on Linux)  I noticed that there were some updates that needed to be installed on my laptop. Continue reading ‘Ubuntu Makes Me Happy Again!’