For all the weary googlers out there, this one is for you. I’ve recently installed Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn on my Dell Optiplex 745 Desktop which has a Dell 2407WFP Widescreen monitor plugged into it. During the LiveCD installation and afterwards, the best resolution I could get on the screen was 1600×1200@60 which isn’t bad, but looks slightly wider than it should given that in Windows XP & Vista (setup on different partitions) it displays [...]

So being a student I don’t have a lot of access to extra hardware to test out certain things, so I’ll freely admit that my testing of Feisty is patchy at best, because I’m limited to VMWare Fusion, but I’ll tell you what I’ve seen and beyond that, I’ve heard some good things. I saw in the news a month or so ago that Ubuntu was not going to make proprietary drivers available in Feisty. [...]

So I had a momentary lapse into insanity over this last President’s day weekend and tried out a few other distributions of Linux. I began with Gentoo. I believe that compiling software from source is the worst possible software distribution model, but I figure it’s always wise to know the enemy (and I saw a friend running it with some really sweet 3d animations). Gentoo I figured I’d give it a try. I will say [...]

So sometimes I do things just for the fun factor. As mentioned in a previous post, I like having Windows server, but I prefer Linux for web-hosting. I finally found the solution to do both at the same time on one machine. In the real world people have been doing this for years, but it’s a first for me. After doing all my installing, I then installed VMWare’s now free VMWare Server. I downloaded the [...]

So the my web server sits in the baby’s room at my house. It sits in the corner, and the only thing plugged into it is power and network. This is fine for just about everything that I do, but every once in awhile, I have a problem that requires a user interface. VNC to the rescue. Ubuntu comes with Vino, a little VNC Server, pre-installed. You can go to System > Preferences > Remote [...]