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YALB - A Look Back after Three Years
2007-05-21 04:26:00
Quietly and without fanfare, Yet Another Linux Blog has reached the ripe old age of 3 years. I started it small and hosted at home during May of 2004. Back then it was hosted on a domain called fatalfame.org (since expired). In December 2004, I switched domains to linuxblog.sytes.net and switched to Serendipity for blogging (hence, lost data from May 2004 - Dec 2004) and it is that month that houses my first and oldest post on the s9y platform...and it’s also the month I discovered Technorati and pingbacks which gives rise to being indexed for the first time then.  The oldest snapshot the internet archive has is December 2004...take a look at how the blog looked then (warning, slow loading).Back then, it was all about trying new Linux desktops and finding things that worked for my wife and I. Today, it’s still all about the Linux Desktop. YALB hasn’t changed its focus and has made some weak minded enemies along the way, but still is managing just fine.Today...
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PCLinuxOS 2007, USR5411 MaxG Wireless Primer
2007-05-19 23:01:00
So you’ve just installed PCLinuxOS 2007 TR4 on your laptop and your wireless card is detected! Finally, a distro gets it right! However, you’re not too sure how to proceed next...do you manage the device through the PCLinuxOS Control Center? Do you start another program and work that way? Do you use KDE’s built in applet to monitor things? What’s next?This is something that is often expressed in the forums at pclinuxos.com and something anyone associated with this fine distribution is glad to see...that is working wireless. However, as noted above, people often wonder how to control their wireless device and how to move in and out of various different environments. I’d like to share how I do wireless on my Thinkpad a22m.I have a US Robotics 5411 MaxG PCMCIA card for my laptop. PCLinuxOS 2007 detects it out of the box but doesn’t install it by default. The reason for this is that PCLinuxOS doesn’t assume to know how you want to insta...
More About: Wireless , Prime , Rime , Prim

How to Become a Cool Blogger and/or Hip Journalist
2007-05-07 06:43:00
First...get yourself a blog and get it running. It doesn’t matter if it is from wordpress, google, or the media company you work for...just get a blog up and running.To get maximum exposure in the past, you had to use keywords. Now is no different. The keyword we’ll focus the most on is one that can get you thousands of hits in a few minutes if submitted to the right news outlet. That keyword is Ubuntu. Add this keyword to EVERY post you make. Name your blog with Ubuntu in the title to make sure that it is vaulted up the rankings. Just remember, you must use the word Ubuntu in everything you post.For your first post, announce that you’re going to stop using Windows XP and use Ubuntu instead. Do a lousy job of documenting your installation procedure and make sure you don’t talk about anything of worth to someone who might be making the same change...just talk about how cool it is to be running Ubuntu and go over all the pluses. Don’t focus on an...
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Tux500 YouTube Video
2007-05-04 01:27:00
Some of you may know that my friend Helios (aka Ken Starks of Lobby4linux.com and Blog of Helios) has been working on the Tux500 project which is geared at getting Linux on a car in the Indy500. Take a look at this video made by Tux500.com that explains a bit about the Indy500 and why it is important for Linux to be there. Very professional. Make sure you Digg the video as well!
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