Nice Ubuntu Wallpapers
This is a really quick post, but I thought I might pass these on. 60 Beautiful Ubuntu Desktop Wallpapers.
Category Archives: Ubuntu
Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty” Released: Torrents Available Here
What a difference thirty minutes can make. I checked for the final release before I left for work, nothing. I checked when I got into work and there it was! I also noticed that the main site was already lousy with traffic and it is only going to get worse. I thought it’d be a… Read More »
Announcing the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 9.04
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop and Server editions and Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Codenamed “Jaunty Jackalope”, 9.04 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 »
Help Needed: Auto-Configure Proxy Settings via DHCP
At home I run my own DHCP, DNS and Squid proxy. I implemented the proxy because my DSL connection is pretty bad and anything I can do to improve that goes a long way. Now my proxy works fine, but the issue that I’m running into is having it auto-configure the browser(s) on each machine… Read More »
Four Years and Counting..
I was taking a look at my blog stats the other day and realized that this post will make post number seven-hundred on this blog. Seven-hundred posts since February 2006. I can hardly believe it! This April also marks four years since I started using Ubuntu (the 5.04 release). I can’t believe how fast the… Read More »
Disabling OpenID Plugin
I’ve been having issues with the OpenID plugin for WordPress, as many of you have noticed and commented. Until I’m able to come up with a solution I’m simply going to disable the plugin. If anyone has any tips or solutions on getting it to work reliably on WordPress please let me know.
New Features In The Upcoming Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty”
With the recent release of Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty” alpha 6 this last week I thought I’d outline some of the upcoming new features awaiting us this April. I’d love to hear from those of you that have already been using the alpha releases and tell us your experience with some of the features listed here.… Read More »
Trying Out a New Theme
After toying with a few new themes I have activated one of them on this blog today. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the change. Better? Worse? Anything missing? Drop by, leave a comment, and tell me what you think. P.S. I know OpenID is broken. I’m looking into it..
How To Find What Package Provided a File?
Earlier today I found myself in a situation where one Ubuntu machine was missing an executable available on the second. After trying to guess the package name a few times without success I pulled this little number out of my bag of tricks: cedwards@monkey:~$ dpkg -S $(which host) bind9-host: /usr/bin/host As you can see, this… Read More »
DNS Hiccup
We had a DNS hiccup overnite. My apologies. There always seems to be something that gets missed when doing a server migration. Turns out, when I cut off the old server, there were still DNS entries pointed there that I had missed. I believe this problem has been solved. Again, my apologies for the downtime.