This last weekend put me on a distro rampage, the kind that we’ve all gone through at some time. I think it was brought on by the holiday of releases last week. Fedora Core 6, Firefox 2, Ubuntu 6.10.. a guy gets curious to see what is going on outside of his [...]
In a follow up from my previous post about Seveas’ Ubuntu Repositories I wanted to follow up with a few of his packages that make life easier. Big thanks to jsmidt for his tip.
If you do not have his repositories enabled see Ubuntu Seveas Packages for instructions
note: make sure you have universe & [...]
Last nite I decided to install Beryl and AIGLX after upgrading to Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft). After getting things setup and enjoying the sweet new features of Beryl I thought I’d post my instructions. note: All previous installations of XGL/AIGLX must be removed for this to work.
Step 1: Make sure your desktop [...]
My office, in its infinite wisdom, decided that Microsoft Server 2003 was the best investment they could make. Well, I’m sure most of you understand why I think that’s probably the worst idea in the world but, on the bright side, at least I don’t have to use Outlook .
I am using Evolution to [...]
Many of you might be familiar with my post concerning How to install Flock on Ubuntu. I’ve been using Flock now for months and I really enjoy it. Recently, however, I noticed that a few multimedia functions that I had supported in Firefox were not supported in Flock, despite the fact that the [...]
Update : Improved (current) tutorial available here.
I’ve been looking for a decent Calendar application lately so I thought I would try Mozilla’s new Sunbird release (v0.3, released October 11, 2006). Perhaps due to its very early release, or perhaps related to the Mozilla vs Debian fiasco it is not yet included in Ubuntu repositories. [...]
Dennis Kaarsemaker has been publishing Ubuntu related repositories for quite some time. He is one of the big players in the community (http://ubuntulinux.nl) and maintains quite a few packages for the community. For those not yet aware of this resource I’ve got some tips below:
http://ubuntulinux.nl/source-o-matic – use this to generate a custom sources.list. [...]
I re-found something today that I had forgotten about. It outlines a couple of quick methods you can use to speed up the Firefox engine and make pages load more quickly for you. I set this up again this evening and see a noticeable speed increase.
Here are five steps for speeding up your browser.
In your [...]
Update: This post has been updated based on comments by users. See comments for more details.
I realize that this might be something understood by many people but last night I went to set it up and realized I needed some documentation. The documentation that I did find was rather limited so I thought [...]
Per my recent post below, Flash 9 is now available for the Linux Desktop. Hooray for us! In my previous post, How to install Flash Player 9 for Linux I outlined how to install the plugin for the default Firefox browser. I also updated the plugin for my Flock browser and wanted [...]
