Shane Fagan

I was looking into backing up evolution on to ubuntu one so I tried a few things and this is what I came up with by looking at how evolution itself does it.

#!/bin/sh
rm ‘/home/shane/Ubuntu One/evolution-backup.tar.gz’
evolution –force-shutdown
rm /home/shane/.evolution/.running
gconftool-2 –dump /apps/evolution > /home/shane/.evolution/backup-restore-gconf.xml
cd /home/shane && tar chf – .evolution .camel_certs | gzip > ‘/home/shane/Ubuntu One/evolution-backup.tar.gz’
evolution

Just replace shane [...]

I decided to do a fresh install of karmic and quite surprised how slick the process was. Before now ive installed gutsy, hardy and jaunty. Karmic is a lot better, the slideshow is very nice. Although the one thing I found weird is how long it took. Booted it from a usb and I was [...]

Ive been using karmic since alpha 1 and finally its all coming together. A hot new theme, the software store, ext4 and xsplash are the main highlights. Another improvement is the effective use of package kit. It really bugged me that I had to imput my password to check for updates but thats gone now [...]

Recently ive heard a lot of strange mailing list banter, mainly from the Gnome marketing mailing list. Its in regard to the FSF (Free Software foundation) terms like “Free Software” and “GNU/Linux”. The FSF believes that everyone should use the term GNU/Linux rather than just Linux and use Free Software not open source.
What im wondering [...]

Did a talk at the OSSbarcamp on Saturday.
My talk was about launchpad Going through all of the features that I could think of in the time I had (Really everything other than ppas because I dont know myself). Other than talking way too fast and saying “mmm” a lot it went fairly well. I plugged [...]

Microsoft again with its confusing strategy of open source attack and aid, (quietly) made a new thing called the codeplex foundation. According to the website they created it to help bridge the gap between commercial companies and the open source world. Great idea but the board is made up of microsoft employees and what I [...]

I complained a while back about evolution being ugly but I fiddled with the UI a little. Nothing that requires any programming just changing stuff from the view options.
Here is the default evolution on a fresh install of ubuntu.

Here is evolution after I changed stuff.

I much prefer the simpler version. The only real difference [...]

Here is a load of software that I use a lot but that are not in the default install of ubuntu.
gwibber
I love gwibber I post to twitter, identica and facebook all at once which is nice.
gnome-blog
Ok this isnt the greatest program but it posts to wordpress with no trouble. Id love a save draft [...]

shane@shane-laptop:~$ vrms
Non-free packages installed on shane-laptop
fglrx-modaliases Identifiers supported by the ATI graphics driver
linux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.28 modules helper script
linux-restricted-modules- Restricted Linux modules for generic kernels
nvidia-173-modaliases Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary [...]

I was reading http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10346669-62.html
Its really funny believe me. I think Microsoft believe that they invented the PC.
Like really who are Microsoft to
A. define what consumers define a PC as
B. judge linux
FUD angers me. Down right lies anger me more.
A month ago I thought that Microsoft’s strategy was beginning to change but they have gone back [...]