I’ve been thinking about switching from Fedora to Ubuntu. I downloaded the latest Ubuntu version a few weeks ago. Today I took the plunge and booted it up.
First thing I noticed, no wireless networks. It detected my card and it seemed to work, but no networks were listed by NetworkManager. I unplugged the power and [...]
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Early adventures with Ubuntu
Posted in Open Source, Techy, Videos Also tagged Fedora, livna, Open-Source, truecrypt, ubuntu, ubuntu versus fedora 4 Comments
RIP Bennett Robinson
This morning I learned that Bennett Robinson passed away about a year ago.
I met Bennett on a flight from Singapore to Bangkok, he gave me the push to actually install Linux on my laptop. He was running it himself (a man in his sixties), and convinced me it was easy to make the switch. We [...]
ZendStudio 5.5 on Fedora 8
I am delighted to report, that at long last, I’ve managed to successfully get Zend Studio 5.5 running on Fedora 8. It turns out that, no matter how hard I tried, I could not get Zend Studio 5.5 to run with Sun’s JRE / JDK 1.6. However, switching back to the 1.5 release worked like [...]
Posted in Techy Also tagged fedora 8, java 1.5, java 1.6, zend, zend blank screen, zend studio, zend studio on fedora 4 Comments
Skype Wins Again
Unfortunately I can’t find a suitable alternative to Skype. I use Skype for PC to PC calls, some PC to Phone calls and I have a UK phone number which rings on Skype. I can’t find a suitable, open alternative anywhere.
I considered OpenWengo, but it doesn’t work very well on Linux (neither does Skype) and [...]
Linux Audio Volume at Boot
Every time I restarted Fedora the volume would reset to 50% and the mic would be de-selected as the recording source, so VoIP wouldn’t work. I’d have to manually reset these every time I rebooted. Turns out, as with everything Linux, there’s a simple solution!
You set your desired volume, login as root, then [...]
Fedora 7 and Skype 1.4
I upgraded my laptop to Fedora 7 yesterday. As usual, upgrading my OS involves a bunch of new programs, copying some data, restoring my settings, etc, etc. This has been the easiest update yet though, I’m getting the hang of it. Fedora release a new version every 6 months, so I get regular practice!
The most [...]
rTorrent and screen
I’ve recently discovered the joy of screen. For non-techies it’s a cool little program that means I can log on to my server, start something, log off, and then log back on and pick up exactly where I left off. I can even leave things running while I log off and they’re still running when [...]
A Linux Smartphone
I had this great idea that I’d love a Linux based smart phone. I figured somebody had to have thought of this first, and so a little scroogling (new window) later I found the E2881 (new window). It looks almost like a Treo (minus the aerial) and yet it runs on Linux. How uber-cool is [...]
