John offers a straight-forward guide to get fetchmail to work in Ubuntu using fetchmailconf, and running it as a daemon.

Although reconnecting the bluetooth USB dongle is a good workaround for Ubuntu, it is starting to get a tad annoying. On the Ubuntu forums, it is apparently just since the Edgy release that this occurs. There is a workaround by removing the bluez packages – although the side effect is that you cannot add other [...]

After cursing Linux for not seeming to have a decent open source virtual machine platform, I’ve found out that an application called VirtualBox is now open source. Seeing as I’ve been quite comfortable using Virtual PC 2007 up to now, I thought that it would be nice to see if I can get Windows XP [...]

I’ve just spent 3 hours playing around with trying to get wireless to play nicely. Thankfully, after attempting various HOW-TOs that are out there, I managed to use the Windows drivers from the Linksys FTP site with ndiswrapper. I also installed network-manager to get the whole thing rolling, and the wifi worked immediately after the [...]

I had a bit of trouble booting into Ubuntu after connecting a new SATA hard disk drive. After a fair amount of searching, I found a solution at linuxquestions.org. It seems that his system had shifted the disk from hda to hdb. As I’m using a SATA disk, I needed to change the drive from [...]

Is it time for Linux to step up and be a real competitor to Microsoft and Apple on the desktop?