Indigo Jo on July 5th, 2010

I have two Dell computers (one laptop, one desktop) and they both have Windows Vista and Linux (currently, the latest version of Ubuntu) installed on them. I use Ubuntu the vast majority of the time. There are a number of reasons for this. One of them is the annoyance of the way software updates work. […]

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Identi.ca
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • WordPress
  • Share/Bookmark

Continue reading about Why I don’t use Windoze

Indigo Jo on January 18th, 2010

Thunderbird 3 has been out for a few weeks now, although I’d been using it on Linux since well back in the beta days. It was actually the standard version of the software on Fedora 11, which I was using on my “big computer” (the Dell I got a year ago) and it’s blazingly fast […]

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Identi.ca
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • WordPress
  • Share/Bookmark

Continue reading about Thunderbird and Android updates

Indigo Jo on December 13th, 2009

The other day I bought the January 2010 edition of Linux Format, the UK’s best-known magazine for that platform. In the letters page, there is a letter from a guy called Nick Canupp, having a go at sections of the community for opposing the inclusion of Mono (a freeware implementation of .NET) and proprietary video […]

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Identi.ca
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • WordPress
  • Share/Bookmark

Continue reading about Linux Format rant on Mono debate

Indigo Jo on October 30th, 2009

Yesterday I downloaded the newly-released latest version of Ubuntu, codenamed Karmic Koala (they all have an alliterative codename; the last was Jaunty Jackalope). I had been using Fedora version 11 since, well, it came out, and although it worked better than any of the other versions of Linux that were available until yesterday, there were […]

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Identi.ca
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • WordPress
  • Share/Bookmark

Continue reading about Ubuntu ‘Karmic’: my computer is a joy to use again

Indigo Jo on May 27th, 2009

Today I got the new Belkin network card I ordered from Dell over the weekend. (Obviously, it being a bank holiday on Monday, and having ordered it at the weekend, it took until today to arrive.) The Dell status update wasn’t very helpful, as it told me yesterday evening that they were awaiting fulfilment from […]

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Identi.ca
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • WordPress
  • Share/Bookmark

Continue reading about New network card

Indigo Jo on February 4th, 2009
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Identi.ca
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • WordPress
  • Share/Bookmark

Continue reading about Finding a decent Linux distro

Indigo Jo on July 21st, 2008
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Identi.ca
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • WordPress
  • Share/Bookmark

Continue reading about LugRadio Live 2008 reviewed

Indigo Jo on June 24th, 2008
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Identi.ca
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • WordPress
  • Share/Bookmark

Continue reading about Return to openSUSE

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Identi.ca
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • WordPress
  • Share/Bookmark

Continue reading about Round-up: Irshad Manji, moons in mosques, the OLPC fiasco, Pauline Campbell, Obama versus Agar, Undercover Mosque

Indigo Jo on November 8th, 2007
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Identi.ca
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • WordPress
  • Share/Bookmark

Continue reading about Mandriva One 2008: brain dead

Indigo Jo on June 26th, 2007
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Identi.ca
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • WordPress
  • Share/Bookmark

Continue reading about The current crop of Linux distributions

Indigo Jo on February 7th, 2007

This Monday Charlie Brooker (Guardian columnist of Nathan Barley and TVGoHome fame) told the world why he hates Macs in the most-read page on Comment Is Free this week. He not only hates Macs, but also people who use them and “even … people who don’t use Macs but sometimes wish they did”. Thabet @ Eteraz agrees with him. Brooker reckons that “Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui” and that the “I’m a PC/Mac” adverts, which in the UK feature a comedy duo called Mitchell and Webb, whom I’ve never watched, are “devastatingly accurate” for the wrong reasons.

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Identi.ca
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • WordPress
  • Share/Bookmark

Continue reading about And I’m a Penguin (but my Mac’s well weapon)

Indigo Jo on July 23rd, 2006
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Identi.ca
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • WordPress
  • Share/Bookmark

Continue reading about LUGRadio Live 2006 report

Indigo Jo on June 23rd, 2006
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Identi.ca
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • WordPress
  • Share/Bookmark

Continue reading about My Mac and Ubuntu

Indigo Jo on May 12th, 2006

OSNews recently published a really poorly argued piece by a former Mac enthusiast who subsequently became a Windows and then a Linux fan (Why I will probably never buy another Mac). It lasts for five pages, and in the first page he goes from becoming a Mac enthusiast while other office workers were being lumbered with PCs, through the whole history up to OS 8 and 9 and Windows 98: after that, he says, the quality of Mac hardware went down, the price stayed more or less the same, the operating system became vastly less reliable and fell behind Windows, and the community did not want to be told that their hardware was a poor choice compared to a PC running Windows.

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Identi.ca
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • WordPress
  • Share/Bookmark

Continue reading about Why I will probably continue to buy Macs

Indigo Jo on March 3rd, 2006
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Identi.ca
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • WordPress
  • Share/Bookmark

Continue reading about Why Windows Vista will suck

Indigo Jo on October 20th, 2005
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Identi.ca
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • WordPress
  • Share/Bookmark

Continue reading about SUSE Linux 10 is here