Closing out the 2009 year with some good progress and experience. Running the site month by month is experience by itself, but sadly the site has not been able to produce enough to support it’s self; this is not a surprise and is actually the norm with sites like mine, but this doesn’t mean the sadness. I’ve seen a huge view of prosperity in the last quarter of LEHSYS.

As with any business, you’ve to keep trying things, watch for the ones that work and those don’t. I’d like to say that I have been trying to be a good student and I feel things are going in the direction I want and doing things on MY terms.

Here’s the December report…

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As I work more with Ubuntu, I notice there’s a few quirks with it, and I was recently struck with a rather simple problem that turned in to a bigger problem. And what was more troubling was there was no REAL solution to find; it was staggering.

The Windows public seems to have a grip on the issue fairly well and there are tons of tool for it, but Ubuntu, not so much.

Try printing to PDF… or create a PDF.

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I’ve had Ubuntu loaded on my Dell M60 laptop [several years old] for an almost 2 months now and I’ve had absolutely no issues of virus attacks. This begs the question, ‘Do I need anti-virus for Ubuntu?’

While Ubuntu/Linux virus attacks are virtually unheard of, based on some forums and documentation virus attacks are theoretically possible.

And this is making me wonder if I need to use anti-virus at all…

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When I loaded Ubuntu a month ago, it was mostly painless. The thing you need to understand, it’s not Windows and while Windows has many applications to do what’s considered a common place function, like playing music, doing things in Ubuntu are a bit different.

But once I was able to get Ubuntu where I wanted it, I need a music player…

Enter Amarok…

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I loaded the latest version of Ubuntu the other day to my DELL M60 laptop; it’s about 5 years old and it was really struggling with life as a laptop with Windows. I had issues with power, issues with hibernation and issues with staying connected with my wireless router.

I was incurring all these problems and I figured, what the hell, what do I’ve to lose? If I screw it completely up, I’ll just reload Windows and go back to shoveling muck around; just like I was doing before.

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I’m a new user to Ubuntu, but I really want to try something new, different, from Windows and I’ve been downloading the various versions as they’ve been released to see the progression of the Operating System.

The progression of Ubuntu has been really good over the past few years and when DELL said they were going to start passing out Ubuntu with your PC’s and laptops, I thought that was great.

The thing is Ubuntu doesn’t seem to get any respect from software and hardware makers.

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One of the first things your going to need with Ubuntu 9.10 is FLASH player. I’m still not real happy with Ubuntu and Adobe on this mess; it’s just stupid.

How in the world is a new person to Ubuntu to understand half the gibberish crap about terminal commands, the tweaks to get the FLASH player installed?

While the Ubuntu forums are swarmed with them… this is what I did, it worked and it was painless in comparison to going to Adobe’s website to install the latest .DEB.

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I’m not messing with an Operating System that’s got such an issue with getting a browser to work. Ubuntu us a great Operating System, but damn, it’s not supported enough.

I give props to all the people that are really pushing it and I’d love to step away from Microsoft Windows, but the fact is that Windows is supported in one form or another, this version or that and has greater support for a myriad of hardware.

My example, Ubuntu is making great strides and infiltrating portable Internet devices, but it’s almost like it’s too specific. People can’t deal with it’s complexities, nuances and command line requirements; the average user is not jumping through hoops to install FLASH. They want to click and install it…

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