First post...

Hi there...

Despite my name being TechnoMage, I'm more TechnoHippie these days. Certainly no Techno Viking. I'm too much of a lard arse for that.

What's this blog about? Technology. Not bleeding edge, nothing wild. Mostly Linux. Mostly hacks. Mostly ways to get things to work and share the fixes I've found for things that don't work the way you expect or stuff that's broken and more importantly, how to fix it.

I'm tooling around with Ubuntu. I dumped Windows quite some time ago because the license fees for Vista were beyond my means. I found lots of bugs and things that I was generally unhappy with in Vista RCx as well.

There are lots of places on the web to find solutions to Ubuntu and tech issues. Many, many places. A bewildering array of sites. Some are correct, some are half correct and some are just downright wrong. My idea is to try to being these tips, tricks and techniques for the most common problems into one place to make it easy to go from zero to hero quickly and with a minimum of pain.

So far, I run all my businesses solely on Ubuntu. That's not to say that Ubuntu is not without bugs and hassles. It's not an operating system which is perfect. None of them are. However, it's pretty good for general use. As soon as you want to do something different you will need to get your hands dirty in the command line environment. I'll show you what I do as it happens to make Ubuntu a better place to be for most purposes.

Back soon with some meaningful posts.