technology & software development blog by matt geri
February 11th, 2009
I recently found the need to setup a home server to do backups and to store common files that are needed around the house. So, I had a computer lying around doing nothing (a pretty decent machine actually) and decided that I would use it for a home server. The operating system of choice was [...]
February 5th, 2009
I can’t remember where I picked this up (I think it was on twitter), but it is definitely an interesting read. It is basically an article that runs a bunch of benchmark tests on Ubuntu, Windows Vista and Windows 7 an compares the results. They got a pretty decent machine from Dell to run the [...]
January 31st, 2009
I picked this one up from Stii’s blog. Ever wondered how to pronounce Linux? Well here we go…
I used to pronounce it like Linus does in the video but after time I started pronouncing it “line-ux” because so many other people pronounced it that way. Oh well, time to start getting out of that old [...]
January 3rd, 2009
One of the first things I did when I moved from Vista to Ubuntu was install a nice looking theme. The default Ubuntu theme is pretty decent, but I dont like the brown and when browsing posts like this and this, I knew I wanted a sexier look for my laptop.
I haven’t messed around with [...]
November 12th, 2008
I have just finished upgrading from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.10 and I am extremely impressed! I skipped the 8.04 upgrade because I only had a cd of 7.10 and didn’t want to use 500mb+ of our 3gig bandwidth cap here at home.
So anyway, I hope to do a full blog post soon on what I [...]
September 23rd, 2008
I touched on this topic in my first Ubuntu post last week but thought I would revisit it in a little more detail. I also plan on writing a tutorial that shows you how to skin Ubuntu and make it look sexy.
One of the big complaints (definitely one of my biggest) with Ubuntu is the [...]
September 22nd, 2008
I have been playing around a bit today with my local WordPress installation and just set it up with SVN so that all I have to do is type in one command to upgrade it. It is pretty cool, so I though I would share my new found knowledge. Not only can you keep your [...]
September 15th, 2008
If you are following me on twitter, you will have noticed that I have recently switched from Vista to Ubuntu on my Dell Inspiron 1525. I started off doing a dual boot with Vista but after playing around with Ubuntu for the past few days and customizing it to my liking, I am confident that [...]
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