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Last week I wrote about choosing a browser for Linux. Today I put my thoughts into effect and set up Firefox Developer by importing bookmarks from Opera into it and syncing them. However it hasn’t taken long to discover problems with using Firefox for all the stuff I used Opera for. First problem is for…

How to debug a program that is not working properly If you are having trouble with a software application that is not working properly in Linux, start the command from a terminal shell. The shell will receive all the status messages from the application that you don’t see in the GUI shell. You can see…

Today’s Linux Experience is about the differences between Linux Mint and Lubuntu. Linux Mint is a full desktop experience distro intended to look and feel as much like Windows or other full featured GUI operating systems as possible. This is reflected in its resource needs. I have used Linux Mint extensively over the past four…

So another ripoff by the look of it. I have two Adata pen drives that are reported at less than the labelled size. Even if we understand that there are two different ways of defining what a gigabyte is (one uses 10^3 as the multiplier and the other uses 2^10), the size of these devices…

One of the annoying things about Intel is how much they mix and match features on their CPUs to try to screw you into paying more money. It gets that you have to drill right down into the specs of individual CPUs to make sure you are getting the features you need, for example virtualisation…