Just a quick set of notes I accumulated earlier when I installed the new JRE on a couple of 64-bit (AMD64) Intrepid machines. Download the JRE or the JDK for 6u12 from Sun Microsystem’s Java download page. Select the bin option, NOT the RPM. Save the file to your home directory. When the download is [...]

I used to write a lot of projects in PHP when I was working for creating a Web interface to something. However, I recently have spent some time learning other languages—C# and Java being two of them—and am beginning to realize that I think I would rather use one of them for creating anything larger [...]

I just read a post online answering the question of why one “bothers” with Linux. I have to say that I fall into a mixture of his categories as well. The main reason that I use GNU/Linux is that of freedom. I don’t like being told what I am allowed to do with my computer, [...]