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When Scripting Helps

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I ran out of space on my harddrive today. Serves me right trying to get along with a minimalistic 20gb /home partition.

Instead of trying to install or use a graphic tool to see what was using up the most space I decided I needed a quick script to get a picture of what is going on at /home.

Here is a quick overview of what I did…

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A while back I did a quick install and tour of Windows 98, today it was the turn of Windows 95. Playing around with it I can see why so many companies where I did tech support used it in favour of Win98. continue reading…

In my previous post I told you of my experience with an Aspire One running Linpus Linux. After tooling around with that disaster I offered my colleague two options, either I install Ubuntu or he gets someone else to install Windows XP.

To my joy he told me to go ahead and install Ubuntu on it. continue reading…

I am a Linux fanatic. I like gadgets. A colleague tells me offhand that he needs to help a friend with a Linux netbook and I am all ears. Colleague cannot fix it (he is a windows nerd) and I am all too happy to help.

So now here I am writing this blog entry on a brand new Acer Aspire One.

And I am disappointed with Acer. continue reading…