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So a few months ago in June, I attended LTPact at Caesar’s Palace here in Las Vegas at this event I ran into a spokesman from Microsoft new Hosting Division. Now I am not a fan of Windows Servers for we at this time have 11 Linux servers streaming along all day long nonstop now for years. Read the rest of this entry »

I wanted to clone my DVD’s for personal backup, plus I have kids and I don’t want the master disk scratched.

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So I run Ubuntu Linux as my OS for my main desktop PC. One of the many things that are great about Linux is that the tools and software needed to do many of the daily tasks are free. One such great tool is k9copy. Go ahead and install this software using your favorite package manager. After installed this is what I found I had to do.

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So a few weeks ago my laptop died, and my desktop is getting older so I need to replace them. So last week I went out and picked up a new Gateway MT6452 Notebook. Now I figured that I am a linux guy and don’t really like Windows but I would give this new Vista a try right? Well so far I must say it is not that bad. No it is not really good, but it is not as bad as I thought it would be. Please note I upgraded to 2GB’s RAM instead of the factory 1GB Read the rest of this entry »