Tag Archive for 'ubuntu'

My awkward introduction to EFI.

I honestly didn’t even know I had it until a botched Ubuntu upgrade yielded that screen you see above.

Ubuntu Studio, the podcaster’s distro.

Time to take these freedom-hating fools to school, and what better way to do that than with a 64-bit Linux distribution and a real-time zero latency kernel?

Android screen grabs – no rooting required.

I originally pooh-poohed the idea of grabbing screens from my N1 via a USB-connected computer, but the only rooting solution that I’ve tried so far didn’t work out. So this morning I Googled up some n00b-friendly instructions for screen capture using the Android SDK on a desktop installation of Ubuntu Linux…

Ubuntu’s Unity – guilty as charged.

While pouring over news on the Ubuntu releases this past weekend I was surprised to see some negative reaction to the new Unity environment for netbooks — notably from Netbooknews.com and surprisingly from Linux-only computer vendor System 76.

Of course I had to investigate; here are some quick and dirty first impressions…

My Thunderbird inbox has an extra inbox.

I’m a big fan of Mozilla’s Thunderbird, and have been for quite some time. It has enabled me to, among other things, retain email dating all the way back to 1996 — it helps that they were originally sent and received with Netscape Communicator back in the day.

But there’s a tiny little hiccup in Thunderbird’s latest and greatest (v3.07 in the official Ubuntu repositories) that I’m hoping you can help me with…