I usually leave my desktop computers at home in the standby (sleep) mode when I am not using them. It is an extremely low power level but provides for a nearly instant on when I want to use the machine. The screens go into a sleep mode as well. I don’t have them set to go into that mode automatically as there are times when I have a very lengthy processing job running that may...
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A Small Drip
I did an install of Drupal7 on my web server last night. It is a CMS (Content Management System) software system for building and publishing a great many different kinds of websites. I have been wanting to take a look at Drupal for some time and a possible use for it at my work made me load up the latest version for a look-see. I works quite a bit differently than the Joomla CMS which...
Continue reading...Sandbox 13.04
Actually it is Sandbox running Ubuntu 13.04 but the result is the same. The operating system and the software are the heart of the system. The name sandbox can represent the hardware which seldom changes after the box is built. The update was flawless as thousands of files were downloaded and installed in their proper locations. This was a far better experience than I had with Fedora. I hope a Fedora fanatic reads this. Hmmm...
Continue reading...Coming Up to Speed
I don’t know what is going on behind the scenes with my new install of Ubuntu Linux. I don’t have any benchmarks to run a test but computer response appears to be a bit snappier or quicker than I was experiencing with Fedora. It is basically the same software with a little different packaging so I don’t quite understand why. I did change the way the partitions are created. In Fedora I had variable size...
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