I’ve used the Turkey City Lexicon for years. Growing out of a science fiction writer’s group in Austin, Texas, it’s an invaluable resource for all writers. It’s a collection of humorous writing tips, apt names for writing errors and a kind of secret handshake for writers all rolled into one. For Example: The Kitchen-Sink Story [...]
Image via Wikipedia So far, the great Linux experiment is going great. I’ve switched from Fedora to PCLinuxOS: The main reason was the native support for my Radeon Card. Thanks, Tasos, for the heads up! I’ve also been playing with a few Word Processing program. I’ve already mentioned Open Office, the full featured MS Office [...]
Shortly before my brother John left to serve in Iraq, I lent him my copy of Neal Stephenson’sCryptonomicon. He was about the fifth person I lent the book to. No one, And I mean No one I’ve lent it to has wanted to finish it. I figured between downtime and subject matter, He’d be the [...]
Kubuntu- The Ubuntu family are becoming the go to Distro for Linux Novices. With a slick user interface, a wide variety of apps, and a decent installation process, Kubunu would have been my favorite had it actually worked on my machine. Although I had it installed on my Daughter’s laptop, it froze up on mine [...]
After the Good, and the Bad, here comes the UGLY: Peripheral Support- There’s just no Excuse. Linux might be a small market, but’s getting mainstream. My Epson CX 8400 was bought 6 months ago, but the Linux Drivers were released last month. As two packages: One for the printer and one for the scanner. With [...]
