Crew Two

Category: Linux | FOSS

My Privacy Experiment

This is going to be a long read. You’ve been warned… I’ve been on a journey for several years now of investigating Linux and Open Source software. It’s taken me much longer than I’d hoped to come to grips with it all, and I possibly never will fully unless I take some serious time off …


The lesser known tech guru more influential than Jobs or Gates

This month, January 2019, there was an I.T. conference held at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Although it is by name an Australian conference, it was attended by 600+ professionals and hobbyists from all over the planet, and included some of the world’s most influential people in the world of computer hardware …


Mount NTFS partitions in Ubuntu (and SD cards)

Encountered on Maui Linux 17.06 Something that has saved me when doing new Ubuntu builds (which happens fairly often since I like to try all the different flavours!) When clicking an NTFS partition it fails to mount, throwing a long winded error, the essence of which is: “Error mounting /dev/sda1 /media/….”   Open Konsole terminal …