I tried to do this myself, but found I was much better off following this guide here. Make sure you don’t do what I did - fiddle around with Tbird before following his outline — because you’ll have to uninstall / reinstall everything again.
But this brings me right back to my earlier issue - […]

To me it seems that some of Ubuntu Dapper’s default programs are not the best, and there are other simple things completely missing which need to be brought up to a more comfortable user-friendly standard.
There are various ways of downloading new applications–a very clean & simple guide can be found here. Basically, you have […]

This was not hard to do, and I’d recommend it to anyone. Kubuntu offers the KDE interface, while Ubuntu has the Gnome one. Most important here, is what’s your preference. A decent breakdown of the differences between the two can be found here. But you’d probably have to try each one […]

My story of trying out Ubuntu Dapper, in my own words.
Like I mentioned earlier, I have a Dell Inspiron 600m laptop with (now)1gb RAM and about 33gb hard drive. I decided to roll-back my entire Windows XP Pro to it’s first configuration (as it was when it was shipped to me), of course after […]

I have Windows XP Pro with all the updates (SP2 or whatever) on a Dell Inspiron 600m, only a year and a half old. A couple weeks ago, I upgraded my RAM from 512mb to 1gb and added a bunch of lightweight programs (while uninstalling bulky counterparts). Suddenly Firefox or some other program […]

These are the best extensions, IMO, for me. I’m wary of adding more, for fear of slowing down the browser, so I’ve stuck with the ones I need the most.
(if you don’t use Firefox yet, because you’re still stuck on IE or whatever, what are you waiting for! At least try it out, […]

is ROGUE. Again, for those of you who know, you know. (okay really it’s just a generational thing…my generation or year or whatever will always think that what we grew up on is the best…)
I’ve listed a link below, where you can play it online for free. But (disclaimer), initialize the game at […]