I’ve been having a battle with my Logitech USB headset over the last couple of days. If there’s on thing I liked in Windows a great deal, that was the simplicity of the USB headset.
If I plug it in, all the sound would be defaulted to the headset. When unplugged, the sound would go back [...]

So here I am on the Linux PC.
I’m growing increasingly frustrated at the various flavours of Linux, and the subtle differences between them. So much so that I can’t even find a simple command line to restart the samba server.
the IMAP server seems to be fickle. I can’t get Squirrelmail to show me the inbox. [...]

I’m in the middle of a worrying situation.
After carefully copying all of the relevant emails over to the IMAP server on the Linux machine, I seem to have misconfigured something and had to reset the server and the services.
When everything fired back up, all the emails had disappeared!
I’m just trying to get everything back on, [...]

I had Steve around my place today to help me set up the Linux box and ensure that the platform material is working correctly.
The major tasks today involved configuring Apache with PHP 5 and mySQL.
Thankfully, SUSE 9.3 comes with mySQL 4.1, saving a great deal of aggravation. The catch is that SUSE 9.3 seems to [...]

As if Windows sniffed out my intentions, it refused to boot this morning. Only 1 day after I thought I’d give the Linux platform a proper go.
So now I’m running SUSE 9.3 which installed from the DVD a burned a few days ago fairly easy.
I’ve cheated somewhat though – I’m using a friendly KDE inteface [...]