The latest issue of Scot’s newsletter has a nice collection of information to help answer the question “Will my hardware work under Linux?” It’s got links to getting Live CD distros, hardware compatibility databases, and more.
It’s all part of the Linux Clues addition to the newsletter, both the newsletter and various forums and websites associated with Scot’s are worth checking in to!
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Only in this case it wasn’t a pet peeve before, because I never considered that someone would do this. Someone actually forwarded me a spam they got with the message “This doesn’t apply to me, I must have gotten it by mistake.” What, exactly, do they expect me to do about that? Follow these topics:…
Back at work this morning. We arrived back home last night, so I haven’t had time to get all the pictures moved around and tweaked. We will have some pics from our vacation sometime this week, I would imagine. Angela has some of the details of where we went, what we did, etc. She’s better…
Well it’s now 9AM on March 7, 2002. This site has been dead in the water since 4:30PM March 6. I don’t know when it will be back, as the email isn’t working either, including the email for the company who’s hosting it. I’ve frankly had it with That Hosting Company. Stuff like this happens…
Ed Bott raises an interesting question about people using PCs that don’t meet the requirements in terms of hardware security for Windows 11 but who own otherwise perfectly fine computers. In 2025, when Microsoft stops patching Windows 10, how many computers will still be out there, in use, connected to the internet, and vulnerable.
But in the quote above, Ed raises another point that maybe we should be thinking about more. What happens to all the hardware that is no longer supported as technology advances? It ends up in a landfill. That’s not good. That’s not even acceptable.
We’ll be celebrating my wife’s new job all weekend now! Obviously she’s excited about this. I am too. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll miss working with her and being together every day, but she’s going to be the PR Director for a non-profit organization, doing some of the stuff she loves. She’ll be writing, and…