Linux on the Laptop

I must admit, I’m impressed. A few years ago I bought a PowerBook G4 to replace an aging Sony Vaio (PCG-FX220). The Vaio really had seen better days, the solder on the memory socket was coming loose so that only one socket now works, its a fairly old P3, and well, it looks [...]

Fun with Cygwin

I have been using cygwin, well because I have a windows machine basically I have to. In the same time, a co-worker pointed me at the Cygwin Putty patch. This turned out to be a must for me because I was really not liking the cygwin command interface.
One of the nice things about [...]