My first exposure to programming was, of course, using BASIC on my DOS 6.22 machine in 1995. Then I played around with C from a book my friend bought me. My last two years of high school found me learning the fundamentals of C++, but I didn't get much further than simple if-else functions. This…
Category: open source
Shredding
If you are like me, you may have a drawer full of old laptop harddrives, USB cables, SD card, PCI cards, PCMIA cards, and maybe a few motherboards. I don't worry about it too much, as I used to have a trunk full of these odd items...that I never used again. What you can do…
Software
After installing Xubuntu in lieu of Lubuntu I took a look at what applications I use on my laptop. Chrome is open almost all the time for email, blogging, checking finances, etc., so if you want to know about Chrome I'll let Google it. Desktop open-source applications make up most of the applications I use…