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If you had seen my series of earlier posts on browser choices, you’d have seen that at one stage I was recommending Chrome over Firefox. Then later, I changed to recommending Firefox. Stability in Firefox for me has been in two areas: 1. Crashes of individual tabs 2. Websites failing to load completely or being…

I am currently the owner of a Samsung UA22ES5000 TV which is a small (22″) TV, probably the smallest Samsung TV made. Since I purchased this TV originally, it has almost exclusively been used as a PC monitor, without connecting the internal speakers for sound. The TV has the following inputs: HDMI, VGA, component and…

As one would be aware, about six months ago I took my first tentative steps towards the Linux platform. Since then I have been using Linux extensively on as many of my computers as I can. I did so in the full knowledge there is something of a religious zeolotry associated with this platform, almost…

When I started using Xubuntu it came with Firefox, but I preferred Chrome and Opera. Since then, Opera’s sync servers have been hacked, causing me to make less use of it and stop syncing data altogether. Chrome has been very good on Windows for me in the past, but seems to have a lot of…

Last time I wrote about remote access it was to talk about RDP clients for Linux. Now it is time to have a look at using VNC, which is better supported as a server for Linux than RDP. Ubuntu comes with what is called “Desktop Sharing” which can also be installed as the vino package.…