How to choose a computer store
I’ve never purchased a computer or components from a big box store like Best Buy. And I’ve never had one repaired there either.
A great year for Both.org
Both.org is having a great year thanks to readers like you. We’ve got some really great stats and I thought it would be good to share them with you.
Xfce lock screen fails
I like and frequently use the Xfce desktop because of it's simplicity and relatively small resource footprint. But sometimes, like all things tech, things break....
The IBM PC — 44 years old today
On August 12, 1981, the IBM PC — the IBM 5150 — was announced to the world. I’d known about it for several months as I’d written the training course for the IBM Customer engineers who were slated to repair it.
Microsoft Nonsense
This morning, as I was reading various newsfeeds, I found some news about Microsoft these days. That's not interesting in itself, but the items I'm...
Why I support the “Right to Repair”
I have a friend who wanted some help with her Dell laptop. I converted her to Linux several years ago but this system is now...
David Both to have book signing at ATO
I've just completed arrangements to do a book signing at the All Things Open (ATO) conference this year. I don't yet know when I'll be...
Disk Disaster
Sometimes you're fortunate enough to be on the periphery of an IT disaster and not the cause of it. Even so it can be excruciatingly...
Three surprising reasons I like the Cinnamon desktop
I wrote about my five reasons to like Cinnamon back in April, and in the time since, I've found even more reasons to like and...
My worst self-inflicted IT disaster
I've managed to stuff up many times over the more than 50 years I've worked in IT and computer related jobs. Many times it was...
The Perfect Programmer
August 10, 2014 I found this little bit of poetry in a pile of very old documents I was sorting through today. It was printed...
Using a Live USB for Linux recovery
Over the years I've managed to need recovery mode quite a few times. Most of those instances were self-inflicted and provided me with many learning...
Getting Started with SELinux
SELinux was developed by the NSA to provide a highly secure computing environment. True to the GPL, they have made this code available to the rest of the Linux community and it is included as part of nearly every mainstream distribution.
About those livesys error messages
Do you see error messages about livesys and livesys-late on the console and in the systemd journal like those in Figure 1? Jul 10 21:38:33...
Fedora Repo issues during updates
As I've been doing updates the last few days, I've noticed a problem with random systems where DNF5 indicates that no updates are available when...
The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 24—Reality Bytes
Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 26 of my book, The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, with significant changes to update some...