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Setting up your own Ubuntu mirror is quite easy thanks to a nifty little tool called apt-mirror. And it’s very rewarding too… super fast installations and the convenience of not needing an internet connection when you want to install most applications. We’ll need a few things to get the job done though - apt-mirror, a […]
Last week, I expressed my distaste for the way Ubuntu (and most linux distros) forces disk checks on users. I got even more irritated by this ridiculous behaviour this week when I reinstalled Ubuntu 7.04 on my sister’s laptop… it was actually a downgrade from 7.10 and I might go into the reasons behind that […]
I had some friends over last week and I just couldn’t resist the temptation to show off my attractive GNOME desktop. So I fired up the box, everything was going nicely with me giving a running commentary on the boot process when suddenly I got the “/dev/sda1 has been mounted 30 times without being checked… […]
The Gibbon is out in the wild guys. I’m trying to grab an ISO off the flaky wi-fi hotspot here on campus and hope to get it installed by midnight. In the meantime, dash over to the download page and grab some.
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I finally found some time off from school Sunday to do some blogging… it’s been a while since I did some of that. My music playing habits have undergone a major but very peaceful revolution. On decent hardware, my player of choice is Amarok… seriously, it rocks. Herein lies the problem, I don’t have […]
It seems the whoever is in charge of open source evangelism here in the university of Ghana has built some serious momentum. I talked about ubuntu being used in the balme library some weeks last semester. Well now, it’s the ICT direcrorate. That’s where students do most of their research and browsing. The tech guys […]
Before we start, let’s get this clear… there’s very little you can do to stop an experienced hacker who has physical access to your computer. There are so many ways of gaining root access to a computer if you have physical access to it - and the right know how - that the only way […]
At Free Geekery, we absolutely love open source. It’s why we use WordPress to power this blog, and it’s why we use the Ubuntu operating system on the computers here in the Free Geekery “office” (read: mother’s basement). Recently, our infatuation with Ubuntu begged the question: which Ubuntu blogs have the biggest reach? With nowhere […]
Oh I wish I could get that kind of bandwith.
Cheers,
Odzangba
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Kwasi, wrote a fine article on the subject. Read the full article on his blog.
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