Flash Player 9 Beta for Linux was released earlier. A release is available for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. Over the last five minutes I downloaded, installed and setup the Flash Player on my Ubuntu system. It is really simple. Note: This doesn’t qualify as “free software” (free as in freedom) but for those that… Read More »
I really don’t want to start any flame wars with this post but I wanted to post an honest question to the Linux Desktop user. This stems from my recently installing KDE (since the release of 3.5.5) and desire to learn more about it. I have been a gnome user (Ubuntu) since 5.04 and haven’t… Read More »
This evening I installed KDE to get a feel for what it has to offer since I’ve last used it. I haven’t used KDE since my Red Hat 9.0 days almost four years ago. I’ll say quite a lot has changed! I don’t know that I’ll replace my gnome desktop with KDE but its been… Read More »
I spent the afternoon with herlo tinkering & hacking away on our different projects we have. One thing that he has been trying to do is setup Gaim to auto-join the long list of IRC channels that he connects to regularly. I have had this feature setup for quite some time so I thought I… Read More »
Below is a quick hack to have your Ubuntu machine automagically update for you at a pre-specified time. This includes the “update”, “upgrade”, “dist-upgrade” and “autoclean” commands. The scheduling is taken care of by cron, our trusty always-on-time friend. sudo crontab -e It is important that you use sudo at this point. The command will… Read More »
Tonite and into tomorrow this site will be getting a very much needed facelift. If you experience some oddities this is why. Please be patient. I’m trying to update the site to better layout the content to make things easier for me & easier for you to find the information you’re looking for. I hope… Read More »
A new version of the incredible Flock browser is now available. For those that are running it on an ubuntu system you most likely need to manually update. Download Flock 0.7.6 Unpack latest version (should be on Desktop): sudo tar -C /opt -xzvf flock-*.linux-i686.tar.gz Enjoy! If this is your first installation of Flock on Ubuntu… Read More »
With the recent release of Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft Beta I wanted to outline how to upgrade easily. I have now updated three of my machines and they are all very reliable. For those interested in updating you can use the following command (via ALT-F2 or the terminal) gksu “update-manager -c -d” This should check… Read More »