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Monthly Archives: March 2007

Creating Shortcuts With User Aliases

30-Mar-07

Do you have a set of commands that you find you repeat over and over in your daily use? Things like connecting to servers over ssh, rsyncing data launching apps with a slew of argumets. You know what I mean. Well you can make things easier on yourself by creating alias [...]

Enabling The Cube In Feisty’s “Desktop Effects”

28-Mar-07

I found something this evening in passing that I wanted to pass on to the rest of you.  It’s a small fix that will allow the Cube to function properly with the current setup of Feisty and the desktop effects.  Currently you can get the wobbly windows but no Cube.
In any event, try the [...]

Quick Update

26-Mar-07

I know it has been a little while since I have posted any tutorials here and I apologize.  As I mentioned in my previous post I have just started a new job and need to get things on a schedule here.  In the meantime, until I’m back to a regular schedule, I have invited a [...]

Some Exciting News For Me

19-Mar-07

I have been sitting on this news for a few days pending finalizing some details but I am happy to announce now that I will be the latest addition to the Guru Labs team!
For those of you catching this blog outside of Utah, Guru Labs is a Linux Training company.  That means, yes, I’ll [...]

How To Configure Wireless on a MacBook Using Ndiswrapper

18-Mar-07

As many of you saw, this past week I bought myself a new Macbook and have successfully installed Ubuntu on it via bootcamp. I plan on documenting many of the steps I took to be published this upcoming week, but first I have some great news. I have successfully configured wireless on this [...]

Ubuntu on a Macbook

15-Mar-07

I am now the owner of an Apple Macbook and I have spent the course of the day getting Ubuntu installed on it (under Bootcamp).  I will have some tutorials ready by the weekend for any of you that have wanted to try or are tempted to get a Macbook.  So far I am still [...]

How To Burn an .ISO image in 3-Clicks (CD or DVD)

15-Mar-07

I was working on a project the other day with a friend and he was having some trouble burning an .iso image of one of the Ubuntu 7.04 Herd releases. He asked me about installing gnomebaker or K3B for burning the image. While I have used both of those programs I found that [...]

How To Setup OpenDNS On Ubuntu

14-Mar-07

I had heard about OpenDNS a while ago but for some reason never looked much into it. A magazine article tonight reminded me about OpenDNS so I thought I’d take a look. Well, I’m happy that I did so far. I thought I would outline a few steps for you to get [...]

Squashing A Few Myths About Mono Development

13-Mar-07

During my switch to KDE for a week I saw a few comments about others leaving gnome based on the seeming trend toward mono development. I have seen this in other places as well and I thought I would try to offer some information on what the mono framework really is about. I [...]

Dell Is Listening – Help Make A Change

13-Mar-07

Based on the results of the aptly named Dell Idea Storm (which got a storm of requests for Linux pre-installed) Dell is now asking for more information on what we would like if they were to offer a Linux based installation. Please, for the love, visit this Dell Linux Survey and vote for what [...]