The icons on my Windows XP machine have been flashing on & off intermittently for quite a while. The problem would come & go, and it wasn’t my primary computer, so I never bothered looking into it, though I did have a few suspicions as to the culprit.
I had a little extra time today, and [...]
Ah, daylight savings time.
The time of year that reminds us all that our computer’s automatic clock setting mechanism may not work as expected.
I’ve been getting the error message “”An Error Occurred While Windows was synchronizing with time.windows.com” error message when trying to manually sync my clock to the Windows time server.
A screenshot of the error:
If [...]
I’m a RedHat Linux guy, but I wanted to try out the Ubuntu Linux distribution to see if it’s an acceptable solution for Linux newbies (who would likely install a dual-boot XP system) or for cash-strapped non-profit groups (who would likely use it as their primary system).
I had no problems setting up the dual-boot XP/Ubuntu [...]
