If your computer crashes on resume with any version of Ubuntu after 9.04, and you have a Radeon video card, this might be your answer. Open a terminal and type the following. sudo echo options radeon modeset=0 > /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf Then reboot, and you may have resume back. I did. If you care about the techie [...]
Also tagged geek, ubuntuIt’s one thing to be dumb, it’s quite another to broadcast it across the Internet. The article isn’t completely clear, but it looks like she ordered a Dell computer with Ubuntu on it. Then she dropped out of college when she could get online for classes because the proprietary Windows software provided by Verizon would [...]
Also taggedThe Linux guy and the teacher have talked. Cooler heads have prevailed. It turns out the teacher’s school district runs all sorts of open source software and that she has learned more about technology in the last few days that she had in the last 5 years. The author of the original rant will be [...]
Also tagged EducationIt’s not often that my interests in education reform and open source software coincide. Excerpt from the teacher. The student was showing the ability of the laptop and handing out Linux disks. After confiscating the disks I called a confrence with the student and that is how I came to discover you and your organization. [...]
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