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It appears that Dell will be selling laptops preloaded with Ubuntu Linux soon.

It's worth noting that Dell's CEO, Michael Dell has a Dell Precision M90 laptop loaded with Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. Details about Michael Dell's computers are here.

Most of us have read stories about where Linux came from. We all know about Linus Torvalds programming away somewhere in Finland. Some of us know about Richard Stallman, and the Free Software Foundation, and why that plays into it.

This is an excerpt from the RSIBreak.org website:

Repetitive Strain Injury is an illness which can occur as a result of working with a mouse and keyboard. This utility can be used to remind you to take a break now and then. It will show you a random picture from a collection you can configure yourself for a configurable duration at a configurable interval.

I've been bothered by the fact that it was difficult to view videos from the CNN website in Linux, so I did some searching for answers. I found a few references to Greasemonkey scripts, but all that I found required strange contortions, like right-clicking the video links and selecting "Save As". Of course, they all also required the installation of Greasemonkey.

We've been playing with Linux and BSD distributions for several years now, searching for that perfect distribution. (I have a tough time calling them "distros", not just because it sounds bad, but because there's no "o" sound in distribution. It should be "distris", not "distros".)

We've also played with Mediawiki and some other wikis.

When I say "played with", I mean "installed, configured, tested, experimented on, and (usually) deleted". Work is fun here at Castolon.