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Dear readers,
I have been pouring my heart into the store trying to get it online, blog posts are coming! New DIY, Geek-a-nese and a new feature “FrugalMyPC”… stay tuned, same bat time, same bat channel!!!

Why I use Ubuntu.

 
In our last article Geek-a-nese: What is an Operating System? I told you that I would be putting an article up explaining why I have chosen to run Ubuntu as not only my personal OS, but the OS that my business primarily runs on.
 
 
 
Ubuntu, meet the world, world meet Ubuntu…
 
Ubuntu [...]

Geek-a-nese: What’s an Operating System?

“I’m a PC, and I’m a Mac”… I’m a linux freak, but we will get to that in a later post. What’s the difference? What’s an operating system? Why do I care? …
I’m kicking off a brand new series in the Matt6 blog, we will be teaching you a whole new language, Geek-a-nese.
The operating system [...]

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Online Store coming soon!

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Lost and can’t be found…

The days of relying on floppy disks and cd/dvd discs are well over. In today’s world the availability of USB flash drives, external hard drives, secondary internal drives, and now cloud services are both cheap and everywhere. This availability has stirred up a frenzy in the backup realm.
One particular backup solution is the affordable and [...]

Testdriving Windows 7

I have been fortunate enough to have spent the last several weeks test driving Windows 7 RTM. Those of you who know me, know that I am a linux fan and advocate, but even I have to admit, Windows 7 is spot on!
Businesses and home users alike looking for a performance peak, Windows 7 blows [...]

Microsoft, a free approach?

This week, ZDNet reported that Microsoft has released over 20,000 lines of code to the open source Linux Kernal to support drivers. It is no big secret that some of the top I.T. companies in the world have submitted similar driver code to Linux, but Microsoft? I suppose the news would not be so shocking [...]

Why custom build your machine?

Is there a dinosaur creeping under your desk, one that hums like a B52 bomber and your lights dim every time you push the power button? Obviously, I’m exaggerating, but it may be time to get a new computer. In today’s market, there are some screaming deals available from the big dogs of the computer [...]

USPS drops COBOL for Linux!

USPS has switched 1300 servers over to HP Servers that run Linux. Apparently in an effort to beat the recession, the post office is relying on open source solutions to save costs… I think that is advice we all should consider!
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