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Tag: installation

  • Setting Up a Mac

    Fixing mouse scroll direction, key bindings, setting up Exposé spaces, etc. Installing Keynote, Numbers, and Pages plus any software previously purchased from the App Store. Installing replacement browsers: Chrome, Firefox, and Brave, along with Xee and iTerm2 and Skim. Installing MacPorts, then software starting with ImageMagick. Imagemagick because it’s a good test of everything working […]

  • What I did after installing Linux

    I had a hard drive fail on my laptop, so I put the best parts of several broken machines together into a sum-greater-than-the-whole new machine. Right now, I’m installing Ubuntu Linux 19.04. And, since it’s been a long time since I blogged what I do afterward, here is the mid-2019 edition. References: the usual “what […]

  • Linux on Old Macs

    I was recently given a second 20″ iMac 2007 to go along with the first. They’re beautiful machines, but Apple doesn’t want me to keep using it, so they’re making all their software not work on it anymore. So I’ve been wondering how they’d do as Linux machines. Apparently, it isn’t very easy to get […]

  • Ubuntu 18.04LTS on the HP boat anchor

    Some time ago, we bought three HP laptops. One had a failure we were never able to resolve, and another was replaced by an ASUS desktop. The last was decommissioned back in January. So I decided to try installing the most recent Ubuntu 18.04LTS on one of them. Here’s my notes from the process. First, […]

  • Ubuntu Linux on an HP RP5700

    I recently had the opportunity to purchase four (4) HP RP5700 systems at $20 each. I’m not entirely sure what I’ll do with the others, but I’m installing Ubuntu Linux on one of them. Here are some notes along the way. It’s odd how difficult Ubuntu makes it to find the checksums (MD5 hashes) for […]