Minty fresh Linux
— I decided to roll out a dual boot installation of Linux Mint on my own box. First signs are positive.”
This is my first proper evening on Linux. Last night I had the impulse at about 23:30 to install Linux Mint and I’m only now starting to use it.
After Partition Magic almost destroyed my Windows partition, I had to run a chkdisk to recover it, but all is well and I find I can leave Windows in peace and head back to Mint!
Indeed, there’s much to do here. My sound card doesn’t work, my networking seems a bit flaky and the typography in Gnome is awful. I looked at KDE briefly earlier on, but I’ll stick with Gnome for now.
I’m not completely new to Linux. J has been a fan since it was invented and she’s been playing around with various distros for several years. When we moved to Brussels, we came armed with a laptop running Mint and I got quite accustomed to its lo-fi charms. I’ll let you know how I get on!
See also:
GRUB loses its way when SATA disk fails
GRUB can sometimes be a bit temperamental when hardware issues arise.
- Originally published: 12 Oct 2008 in Linux
Sound advice: a tale of two cards
Problems configuring an NVIDIA sound card to play nicely with Linux Mint.
- Originally published: 12 Oct 2008 in Linux
A dearth of Internet training
Your boss tells you to find some training for your personal development programme. What happens when you can’t find any?
- Originally published: 18 Jul 2005 in Technology
Macromedia releases Studio 8
A new version of my bread and butter software is out. Let’s hope it’s got more than just GUI improvements this time.
- Originally published: 10 Aug 2005 in Technology
Enough already!
When Jade Goody goes off-message, isn’t it time to think about the price of celebrity?
- Originally published: 21 Jan 2007 in Editorial
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
Shameless self-promotion
Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.
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