November 9th
I find it odd that Microsoft seem to be dedicating so much TV air time to their “I’m a PC” response advertisments to the Mac vs PC ads of a few years back. The odd thing is, i never remember seeing any of these ads on television. And i would remember because they were done [...]
October 6th
I had a little trouble installing both Flash and Second Life on Ubuntu, since they seemed to want to use different versions of one particular library. But in the end the solution was astonishingly simple.
Download Second Life from getdeb.net. Choose your OS version and search for ‘Second Life’. I got it working nice and fast, [...]
October 5th
My gosh, all these rumours about Ubuntu being super-easy to use … they are absolutely entirely justified! You can colour me heartily impressed! I am, from today onwards, an Ubuntu user!
To start with, the live CD was fast and responsive. It had plenty of nice examples to show off its features. I was very happy [...]
October 5th
I’m still having a few problems with Debian Lenny. I know it’s not stable yet, and i’m downloading updates almost every day, but it’s just not suiting me particularly well. I haven’t got it to recognise the Nvidia graphics card, it still fails to boot unless i choose an older version of the kernel, and [...]
September 17th
Somebody asked if i’m going to do a blog post review about Lenny. I wasn’t going to, but then i realised i have a bit more to be said about it than 140 characters, so yes, here goes with a mini review.
I don’t find Lenny particularly exciting. It’s reasonably stable, and it’s great that Flash [...]
August 28th
Before i started using TextMate i heard that some people switch to Macs just so that they can use TextMate! I didn’t believe a word of it … but now i am in that exact position! Ruby on Rails is so much easier to program in TextMate, particularly writing and running RSpec tests. Just to [...]
June 7th
Beryl provides neat 3D desktop features, and Emerald is a beautiful window decorator.
Acknowledgement: this information came from debianadmin.com. I am reproducing it here for two reasons. Firstly, it’s nice to have my ultimate personal Debian setup guide all in one place. Secondly, the page i got it from has so-called “smart-quotes” which would confuse the [...]
June 7th
I got most of this information from the Debian wiki but it is a little complicated, so here’s a summary of the way it worked for me. This method involves a re-build of the kernel, but it’s not as scary as it sounds.
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April 10th
Oh, tonight is a night of success! :)
Thanks to this guide i have just managed to get Skype working on my 64-bit Debian. It required a few extra libraries for me. I am impressed by this getlibs trick. I think i’ll be using that a few more times. Thanks lovely lovely thoughtful people who make [...]
April 10th
Two bits of good news. Firstly, MyChores is finally back up and running, to my great relief. We lost data, but people are being very lovely and just reassuring me they are happy it is back.
Secondly, i just installed Flash player! I have been without it since i re-installed my computer a couple of weeks [...]
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