Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” is now almost final and I want to congratulate the entire team and community for a great accomplishment! This is another fine release and I feel proud to be part of this community. For those that now want to upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” to Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” you… Read More »
I keep seeing this question pop up in IRC so I thought I’d post something about it… “How do I upgrade from Ubuntu Beta to Ubuntu RC (and eventually to Final)?” If you’ve installed Beta and want to upgrade to RC (and eventually Final) simply continue to update your machine. There isn’t anything special that… Read More »
Its been a while since I’ve blogged about my Folding@Home management tool, now called Origami. There was a lull there in development for a while, but this last week I’ve done probably 20+ commits, which puts us up to version 0.6.6.1. There are now also two branches being maintained on Launchpad (bzr). One for trunk,… Read More »
Well its that time again, the Ubuntu community is just about ready to launch another fantastic release and with that release the worlds interweb tubes are going to get clogged as everyone upgrades. It’s about this time that I always start thinking about ways to be more efficient with my bandwidth. Bittorrent, of course, is… Read More »
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) on desktop and server. Codenamed “Hardy Heron”, 8.04 LTS continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. We consider this release candidate to be complete, stable, and suitable… Read More »
I figure I’d join the band-wagon too, but I’ll use *readable* $() vs the absolutely unreadable-horrible-habit `. (Yes, that is a `. What? You can’t tell what character that is? Yeah, neither can I when you use it in your code! Its a back-tick and shouldn’t be used because its unreadable!) christer@007:~$ history | awk… Read More »
The other day I thought I’d give the Ubuntu 6.06 LTS to 8.04 LTS direct upgrade path a try on my Ubuntu 6.06 server. It ran smoothly (over ssh no less), until I ran into one bug at the end. I reported it, with a reply back the next day. Two days later it has… Read More »
After going through my feeds for the morning I thought I’d post a reminder about April Fool’s. Geek’s love April Fools. Don’t believe anything you read today! The way I see it, if the news is still around tomorrow and the next its likely valid, otherwise its an April Fool’s joke. I’ve seen some pretty… Read More »
Today I finally replaced my out-of-date streaming music server with something a little more recent. I had long been using gnump3d, and even wrote up a tutorial on it some time ago. Development on the project has pretty much died off completely and even though it has worked great for nearly three years I felt… Read More »
After some testing on some of my less-popular blogs I’ve upgraded this one to WordPress 2.5. The whole ordeal seemed fairly painless (although with the number of blogs I host I really should consider WPMU). I use svn to manage my installations which makes it really simple. If you’re considering an upgrade, these are the… Read More »