Timezone change

April 7, 2009 Posted by

A lot of people have been plagued by the timezone changes of NZ. Thanks debian maintainers for being complete pricks and not updating the package even though you had MONTHS to deal with it. For anyone else who urgently needs a fix, here it is. Get the new zone file wget http://wishes.debian.co.nz/trash/NZ.zi compile it with […]

Partitioning basics

April 7, 2009 Posted by

Most computer users are aware of the existence of their hard drive, even if they’re not familiar with how it works. It’s hard not to be, since the first things people tend to ask when you get a new computer are how much hard drive space you have, how fast the machine is, and how […]

Boot messages Explained Kernel Messages

April 7, 2009 Posted by

Most users when inserting a new Linux CD can be somewhat paniced by the verbose text that the kernel spits out. Some distros have a flash screen which hide this and others just let loose. Dont fret! its only debug so you know whats happening! After a while using Linux you will be able to […]