Jargon Jam

Time for another quick Jargon Jam article, as it occurs to me I haven’t done one in a while. I’ve already talked about the words Linux and Distro, so in keeping with that theme I thought today I’d go for “repo”. A word I use a lot, and something new arrivals to the Linux may find confusing on their first encounter. Read the rest of this entry »

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Downloading Unetbootin

I realise by now practically everyone in the world has been using USB flash memory sticks for a long time but for some odd reason I’ve never actually bought one myself. Why is this you ask? Well, I suppose mainly because the places where I worked often supplied them to me as part of the job and I also carry my laptop around with me everywhere, so I already have all my data. I’m beginning to worry I’ll need expensive surgery to separate me from that computer when the time comes but that’s for another article. Last week I was asked to install Ubuntu on a netbook for a friend and the most obvious way seemed to be booting from a USB stick, netbooks don’t have optical drives you see so the CD was of little use to me. I bought myself a 4gb Freecom Databar for just a few quid and it was about this time I first tried the niftly little program I’d like to talk to you about today. Read the rest of this entry »