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Last week I wrote about choosing a browser for Linux. Today I put my thoughts into effect and set up Firefox Developer by importing bookmarks from Opera into it and syncing them. However it hasn’t taken long to discover problems with using Firefox for all the stuff I used Opera for. First problem is for…

How to debug a program that is not working properly If you are having trouble with a software application that is not working properly in Linux, start the command from a terminal shell. The shell will receive all the status messages from the application that you don’t see in the GUI shell. You can see…

Today’s Linux Experience is about the differences between Linux Mint and Lubuntu. Linux Mint is a full desktop experience distro intended to look and feel as much like Windows or other full featured GUI operating systems as possible. This is reflected in its resource needs. I have used Linux Mint extensively over the past four…

So another ripoff by the look of it. I have two Adata pen drives that are reported at less than the labelled size. Even if we understand that there are two different ways of defining what a gigabyte is (one uses 10^3 as the multiplier and the other uses 2^10), the size of these devices…

One of the annoying things about Intel is how much they mix and match features on their CPUs to try to screw you into paying more money. It gets that you have to drill right down into the specs of individual CPUs to make sure you are getting the features you need, for example virtualisation…

These services are for people who do not use a debit or credit card to make a payment. Instead they are transferring funds directly from a bank account to a merchant. The idea of these services is they can make that type of payment as “easy” as a credit or debit card. However they are…

Anyone who thinks Windows 10 is a great operating system or any product MS makes is great should stop right now. There has been a big furore about a lot of stuff in Windows 10 like forced updates and as a result it is not at all surprising that people are talking about suing Microsoft…

Today I am going to write about how Microsoft wants to take over everyone’s Windows PC with Windows 10, and I am writing from the perspective of an IT industry professional with many years’ experience of Windows and other Microsoft software. As we all know, MS has been pushing Windows 10 very hard as a…

Last time I talked about some JVC gear I have owned. This time I will briefly look at a couple of pieces of Sony gear, one of which I did own.  First up we have the TC-330 cassette and reel to reel tape player. When I went to high school in the late 1970s the…

So we dealt with Dick Smiths (just before they went into receivership) to buy some TVs for the school. And I understand that JVC have pretty much dipped out of making consumer gear under their own name, it tends to be rebranded product from somewhere else. As I understand it JVC TVs are rebranded Amtran…