No Depression Magazine Folds

No Depression magazine is closing down its print edition.  It used to be a great magazine with all the latest alt country (whatever that is) news.
But in the last few years it strayed becoming more of an adult contemporary magazine.  As it left its base so its base left it…nothing else to do but fold.
While [...]

Linux Mint, still my top distro…

As a long time distro hopper, I am surprised to still be using Linux Mint after over a year.  It satisfies and it doesn’t break with updates….I like it.
I just set up my main desktop dual boot KDE/GNOME with a shared home directory…it is wondrous.  Shared firefox, amarok, digikam, kompozer settings folder…reboot into a totally [...]

Vista, the view is not that bad…

Much ink (both real and virtual) has been wasted decrying the faults of Microsoft’s Vista OS.  While I don’t run it on my main box, I do run it on my game/media center box,  Back early last year when Vista was released, the graphics drivers sucked and gave the OS a bad name.  Since then, [...]

Who is the Patriot?

The Chicago Tribune has an interesting piece up about Obama’s former pastor Wright.
I won’t spoil it here, go read it….
I will say that it does call out the chicken hawks on the right….