Geek Documents

Here's an attempt to get stuff chronologically organised.

• The Spatial Way - 19/05/2004 - Why Nautilus is spatial, and how its really a UI improvement.
• Upgrading from Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2 - 19/05/2004 - Some known gotchas, based on a PC Gemilang installation.
• Fedora Core on you iBook - 15/05/2004 - Here's my experience on an iBook G4.
• Debian GNU/Linux on an iBook 2.2 - 05/04/2004 - Here's my experience, and what I've done.
• Rant: The Status of Linux Printing - 27/11/2003 - How I fiddled with printing under Debian, when Fedora solved it in an instant.
• Installing Knoppix to a hard disk - 11/06/2003 - How to install a full-fledged Debian system from a Knoppix CD!
• SunOS (Solaris) Tips - 10/06/2003 - Some collected tips for SunOS (Solaris) that I find useful.
• OpenOffice.org uFAQ - 21/05/2003 - A resource for OOo users out there.
• Linux at Monash University - 29/04/2003 - An article about Linux usage and teaching at Monash Australia. Published in LinMagAu.
• Pegasus Mail on Linux - 02/03/2003 - Or really, an introduction to WINE, the Windows Emulator
• Configuring the Linux ACP Modem (Mwave) - 07/01/2003 - Great for IBM Thinkpad 600 owners (like me).
• OSS-101 - 11-13/12/2002 - Open Source Workshop material (that I prepared). (since retired)
• Using procmail to sort mailing lists - 08/03/2000 - Procmail is Unix's way of filtering e-mail. Here's my little how-to.
• BASH Updates - 07/03/2000 - How to customise the BASH prompt to make it look "nice".
• Kernel 2.2 Update Notes - 31/01/2000 - Things changed, especially in the way /dev was maintained.
• Getting fetchmail to work with IMail - 16/06/1999 - Or a lesson on how Windows NT and Linux talk in terms of e-mail.
• Application Customisation - 26/06/1999 - Getting Enlightenment to work the way you want it too.
• The Myth - 23/05/1999 - The myth that Linux is hard to install... debunked. RedHat 6 was the base of the article.

bytebot.net - home

OpenOffice.org - includes the OOouFAQ and some training guides

Blog - those geeky journal things

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