I know many of you may think I’ve given up and stopped blogging completely. That is not entirely the case. I’ve been overloaded at work, doing over 160 hrs over two weeks in late January and continuing to work later hours than the normal 9-5. Things appear to be slowing down a bit so I’m… Read More »
I just wanted to wish everyone Happy Holidays. Be safe. Have fun and have a great New Year.
I’ve just updated the site to WP 2.7 release. If you notice any weirdness let me know.
Yesterday I ran into a file format I had not seen before. Microsoft .chm (Compiled HTML). Turns out there are plenty of solutions for Linux. I have to admit I really wondered why the publications I found were in .chm and not in a more standard .pdf format. Really makes me appreciate common standards. I’ll… Read More »
The past few days have been all about installing third-party applications. Yes I know some of these are “non-free”, but it does seem like a lot of these are those apps that many of us just can’t do without. So, to continue the series here we have Installing Skype 2.0 on Ubuntu 8.10. Download The… Read More »
UPDATE: Install Adobe Reader 9 on Ubuntu 9.10 For those of you that run blogs, are you ever surprised at the content that ends up being the most popular? I get surprised all the time, particularly that my previous post regarding installation of adobe reader on Ubuntu 8.04 is near the top of the list.… Read More »
Recently I blogged about “What Do You Do Post-Install?” to find out what little tweaks everyone applies to their systems on a fresh machine. It appears that a lot of you enable the Medibuntu repository right away and take advantage of that for media and codecs. Did you know there are also other applications available,… Read More »
I generally don’t jump on the meme bandwagon but I thought this one might be of interest to some of you. My old co-worker, Clint Savage, jumped on a meme regarding “What’s the first thing you do after installing <distro>?” I’d be very interested in what my reader-base does after first installing Ubuntu. Perhaps you’ll… Read More »
I’ve been working on some integration between WordPress and phpBB. I did make some backups before I started working on things and, unfortunately, I had to revert to one of them. You may notice a few comments missing and a post temporarily disappeared. Things should be back to normal but if you notice anything else… Read More »
If your computer habits are anything like mine you probably have a set of applications that you use nearly every time you log in to the machine. Let me guess.. Firefox? Pidgin perhaps? Thunderbird or Evolution? You may have more or less, but it is common for a user to use the same applications regularly. … Read More »