by Dave | Feb 10, 2004 | Tinker Blog
Part of me is very pained. Ever since I got it, I’ve been running linux on my pocketpc. But that ended Saturday night. Things went horribly wrong, and the frustration level induced me to restore PocketPC 2002. I abhor Microsoft products and their use, but when...
by Dave | Jan 7, 2004 | Tinker Blog
I installed it at work and it is flawless! It’s great having Ximian back on my desktop. The stock SuSE GNOME implementation is OK- but it lacks finesse. Everything in the install was smooth. Smoother actually than my Red Hat installs have been. When I would go...
by Dave | Jan 6, 2004 | Tinker Blog
Well, it’s an eternal debate. For Linux there are two desktops that I consider full-featured. Yes, there are others, but I don’t consider them contenders at this time. Both KDE and GNOME are mature enough to go head to head against the MacOS or Windows....
by Dave | Dec 12, 2003 | Tinker Blog
I just migrated all my systems (3) at home from Red Hat 9 to SuSE 9.0. It wasn’t a religious thing. I mostly wanted consistency (although you can definitely mix distros) as well as the fact that I’ve been impressed and pleased with SuSE on my desktops at...
by Dave | Dec 11, 2003 | Tinker Blog
I bought Quickbooks Pro 2004 a couple weeks back. That’s right. A Windows program. It was after many months of working with GNUCash. GNUCash has tons of potential, but it was just too difficult to use. I was spending more time managing the meager finances than...
by Dave | Nov 11, 2003 | Tinker Blog
There are five. Please vote for one. If the one you like could be improved by something specific, please also note that in your comments. We need to get this decided. I know this is hard since there’s not really a ‘right’ one. Remember that the new...
