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If a cyber attack is a mugger, windows is a physically small drunken person with wads of money sticking out of his pockets, staggering down a dark ally past the convention hall during a mugger’s conference, while Linux is a hundred sober and smart well trained Navy Seals each driving a separate armored car in undisclosed locations.

Yes, you can attack the Navy Seals. But if you do that, they’ll make you wanna cry.

Detailed instructions, and links to three other helpful posts, for that special set of people who want to try out Linux but are just getting started.

Everybody will have their own opinion, but in my view, this is a great mouse. This is a review of the Logitech Ultrathin mouse.

I am not a hacker or IT professional, yet I use Linux because it is better and more ethical. There are a lot of us evernoobs out there. This is a review and some guidelines for using Digital Ocean to set up a WP blog.

I'm trying out the beta of the Mate Flavor of the next version of Ubuntu. So far so good. Mate has some good improvements, and the beta version does not seem to be very buggy.

A list of tweaks and nudges for the latest version of Ubuntu with default Unity.

imp is a small inexpensive box based on the Odroid U3

Thoughts on 14.10, Unity, Gnome, Mate, and the meaning of life, which as we all know, is installing an OS on your hardware again and again because it is so much fun!

Scrivener is a widely loved Mac-based writing tool used by many authors. The Linux version is a subset of the original, compiled from a subset of the Windows-based code. It is still cool, though.

The NSA has discovered a hotbed of radical extremist activity and is closing in.

First, a brief rant about Ubuntu, then a few hints to make the latest version less annoying.

My take on the just out Linux Journal readers choice awards. Ubuntu is dropping in position, Unity is getting chastised, and there is some confusion over hardware and software and other issues.

Google, Twitter, Amazon and other major entities in computing and on the internet hold a great deal of power.

Sometimes the display brightness on laptops running Linux does not adjust properly or can't be controlled (it seems) from the desktop. Here's a solution that will work for some.

The most sophisticated virtual human brain so far has been reported in the current issue of Science. It is impressive.

Help out with a study of Open Source software usability

Ubuntu has developed itself out of the hearts and minds of many users, myself included. So, what do I do now?

I've got an extra copy of Land of Lisp, which I recently reviewed. Would you like it?

Land of Lisp and three emacs related books, reviewed.

Having fun with emacs color-theme and an old laptop