I came home from work this evening to a very pleasant surprise! The XO laptop I ordered had arrived in a smaller-than-expected box. I hope the child on the other end of this donation is as excited as I am! I’m actually blogging this from the XO browser on my home wireless network. More details… Read More »
I wish I was announcing the release of Folding 0.6 today but I made a mistake with some of the revisions I had and lost them. Looks like I’ll be starting over on those additions. Those are (for those that are curious), a local backup and restore utility and also a remote backup and restore. … Read More »
I installed Fedora 8 on my macbook the other day just to tinker and see how the other side live and I wanted to make sure I got a few things written down concerning the installation. I had to dig & dig to get it to work, so here’s to hoping others will not have… Read More »
Suppressing Login Messages I do a lot of remote remote maintenance via ssh on my machines and one thing that I’ve long wondered about is the message outputted when you login. You know, the system information output plus the notice concerning the warranty, etc. Here is the output I’m referring to when connecting to my… Read More »
I picked up an old Sun UltraSparc 10 this last week and I set it up yesterday with Ubuntu 6.06 Server. I think I’ll have it run my irssi/bitlbee server, and I was also thinking it could be my local DNS/DHCP server.. but this is where I get into unknown territory for my network. As… Read More »
Late last nite I downloaded the Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 1 release iso and will begin testing soon. I encourage anyone that is apt for adventure, has spare VM space, or otherwise wants to help out to download the image as well. For more information on this release I’ve included the release announcement email below. Download… Read More »
I just finished atteding the latest Ubuntu Community Council meeting in #ubuntu-meeting and want to report on the latest success we’ve had within the LoCo project here in the US. Four teams were up for approval and all four of them absolutely did a fantastic job. Recently approved are Georgia, New Jersey, New Mexico and… Read More »
Just three days after releasing 0.5.2 I’m repenting and reverting a bit with a 0.5.2.1 patch. This removes the renaming prompt at the main installer. Based on a bit more testing and user feedback I realize adding that feature at that point was not the best idea. In the future, installing as normal and then… Read More »
Recently I’ve seen a good bit of discussion regarding 32bit vs 64bit installations of Ubuntu. We’ve even had long conversations at the office on the matter as well. For a long time I’ve simply installed 32bit on my Core2Duo machine, even though it supports the 64bit installation. I just didn’t see a lot of reason… Read More »
Update: I wrote this quite a while ago and never posted it pending more testing. I figure it can be helpful in its current state to more users than just myself. So, in the spirit of release early, release often here are steps that I took for configuring extended display on my MacBook. Based on… Read More »