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I have loads of epubs on my computer, and I have traditionally used Calibre's server feature to share them with our phones. In the past, I've kind of clobbered together things on an Ubuntu box that also served as my main desktop computer. That worked well in the past, but I've recently set up a headless Debian Squeeze server, and I decided to migrate my Calibre server there.

In brief, I servicized the mounting and unmounting of the network drive, and the control script I wrote for it also places netdrive symbolic links in each non-system user's home directory if a directory on the share exists in their name. Here's how it's done.

If you're like me, you remote into a handful of servers using SSH all the time. The process is fairly simple: Get to a terminal, ssh username@hostname, Type password, Get to work.. No, it's not terribly difficult, but when you have to type that password fifty times per day, you begin to realize that it's time-consuming and repetitive. And there happens to be a way to eliminate that step from the process.

I suspect most people who come into IT jobs are taught in college that the world is ruled by Windows (a self-fulfilling prophecy). I suspect that a 15 minute boot time is acceptable to them.

I can make Netflix Watch Instantly work on my Linux media center. Almost. Yes, almost. No, I don't have it working. But I thought that with a little help from the community along with instructions on how I've gotten this far might help bring some support to the topic.

Windows 7 is better than Vista. Great. But saying that is like saying you'd rather catch the common cold instead of swine flu. Aside from the default options being obnoxious and hard to use, there are several things I need to see in a Windows operating system before I'll even contemplate switching back.

Well, that's what this commercial seems to tell us. Their claims? That my slow browser is probably "several generations old." They tell me that IE8 is "a huge improvement on the speed scale."

GoboLinux is a Linux distribution I heard about from a friend who said that it looked interesting for its flagship property - a simpler file structure. I decided to check it out. I downloaded the distribution ISO from their website, which was easy enough, and booted up VirtualBox with that ISO mounted as a drive.

I, like most Linux advocates, have demonstrated the power of Linux to people who had no idea such power existed in technology, much less in free technology. When I help them set it up, they get frustrated and quit. These are the problems faced by many a Linux demonstrator.

The tech world is full of zealots and fanboys who will say pretty much anything to draw attention to their OS/browser/etc. of choice. Let's look at this logically, level-headed.