Posts Tagged ‘Linux’

And The First Link Goes To….

Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
Hacker inside
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Over the past while I have been watching a group in Galway that interests me very much and only for prior commitments I would be there a long time ago and a lot more often. Yesterday evening, Friday, I had my first chance to go to 091Labs.

091Labs is Galways very own hacker space. Where people can meet up for a multitude of reasons, such as arts, computers, meeting friends, having a chat and a  number of interesting events in the evenings, such as the one I went to yesterday, PHP programming workshops.

They also do workshops on android, have done one on Linux, processing and more. If i didn’t work evenings I’d be there for them all. Yesterday was the Introduction to PHP workshop. Once we got over a few teething problems with getting laptops setup, Barry gave an interesting overview of what PHP can do and where it can be used. I fully intend on returning there again next Friday evening.

For more info on 091Labs click here or the link in the sidebar.

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Linux

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Tux, the Linux mascot
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I’ve been running Linux for the last month or so on my netbook. I love using it, it’s simple, fast and easy for the most part. It loads up in a minute or two, unlike windows which loads up in a minute or two also, but then spends the next three or four loading shit loads of programs and apps that I most likely won’t use.

I have very little trouble with linux, Ubuntu to be precise. That was until recently and it was my fault. I uninstalled it in error and tried to reinstall it and it worked, for a few days atleast. Now I can’t even get it to install!!

I think that maybe the iso image that I am using for Ubuntu maybe damged of corrupt somehow. I am trying to install it on a PC which I am working on the moment for someone, but it won’t install on that either. I download the ISO for opensuse yesterday and plan to install that on both the netbook and the PC and see how it goes.

Dispite the problems I might be having with PCs and my netbook, I love trying to problem shoot them and see if I can get them all going again. I am currently setting up a new wireless network around my apartment so that I can link all my PCs, laptops, notebooks, DAB radio and TV together, regardless of where they are in the apartment. I shall write a post about the again another time.

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