Archive for the ‘Ubuntu Linux’ Category
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
There are three reasons I know of for spending money on an operating system at a time when free Ubuntu is now such a viable option. Those reasons are not Internet Explorer, the Microsoft Office paperclip and the excitement gained by placing your valuable data within an environment of questionable ...
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
I've recently taken a shine to Picasa as an alternative to F-Spot on Linux. Installing Picasa 3 Beta for Linux is straightforward on Ubuntu: download the .deb from Google's site and then install it (sudo dpkg -i picasa_3.0-current_i386.deb). Having done that, the only other bit of configuration I have found ...
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
Ok. The subject of the post is deliberately provocative and the chances of me changing the allegiance of die-hard fans of Apple's "beauty-in-a-box" are remote to say the least. But I think it right to encourage everyone (whether Windows, Mac or Linux desktop users) to look again at ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
(Updated: new steps needed for wireless on Eee PC)
Each release of Ubuntu just gets more and more, well, grown-up. When I started using Ubuntu on the desktop, it was a brave man who would upgrade when a new release became available rather than install from scratch (and keep your fingers ...
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Saturday, October 6th, 2007
Create a script to fetch the Google Calendar and copy it to your iPod:
# download the Google calendar ical file through the private URL
wget -c -N http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/yourname%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics
# copy it to the iPod
cp basic.ics /media/your-ipod-name/Calendars/google.ics
rm basic.ics
Now configure Ubuntu so that this script is run whenever you plug your iPod in. ...
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