UPDATE: This article has been updated for clarity and to include user feedback. Install Dropbox on Kubuntu KDE (Without Nautilus). I have been using Dropbox for quite some time now and I really like it. It is cross platform, meaning it works on my Linux machines (at home and at work) and also my OS… Read More »
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 »
After a bit of testing I just activated a WordPress Plugin called “Intense Debate”, which improves the commenting system quite a bit. You should now notice that the commenting system on this blog is improved, with the following features: Reply to comment Comment rating Sort by: Date, Rating or Activity Notification of comments via email… Read More »
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 »
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 »
I’ve found more and more people are switching to Virtualbox these days and I keep running into the same question. “How can I convert my VMware images to Virtualbox images?” Well, breath easy because it is possible and not very difficult! There are two methods that I am aware of that will allow you to… Read More »
I’m running a slave DNS server on the machine that runs this website. It is one of three DNS servers (one master, two slaves) that I have running for my multiple domains. I recently noticed from my Logwatch output that it was having issues with IPv6 lookups and these were causing timeouts and putting extra… Read More »
I only have just a minute for this post, but I’ve been thinking for the past few weeks that I’d really like a project to contribute to. After putting some thought into it I realized I liked the idea of contributing to something upstream, vs to a distribution specifically. I also really enjoy GNOME and… Read More »
I setup the new office printer here on my laptop this morning and I had all kinds of trouble getting it to work with the system-config-printer graphical utility that I usually love so much. As part of my troubleshooting I thought I’d try the web interface, which worked great! That gave me the idea of… Read More »
WIN goes to nixternal for pointing out a fix regarding the VirtualBox guest additions installation on Ubuntu 9.04. Just the other day I installed the latest Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty” alpha 6 release and then installed guest additions on the virtual machine. At that point things went downhill. I was no longer able to get a… Read More »