Monthly Archives: September 2009

Evolution backup

Posted on September 29, 2009 by Shane

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 … Continue reading →

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Installing Karmic

Posted on September 29, 2009 by 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 … Continue reading →

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Karmic, what a beauty

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Shane

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 … Continue reading →

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FSF

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Shane

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 … Continue reading →

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OSSBarcamp

Posted on September 20, 2009 by Shane

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 … Continue reading →

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Codeplex…

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Shane

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 … Continue reading →

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Evolution

Posted on September 12, 2009 by Shane

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. … Continue reading →

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Software that I use that are not in the default install of ubuntu

Posted on September 11, 2009 by Shane

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 … Continue reading →

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vrms for my laptop

Posted on September 10, 2009 by Shane

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 X.Org driver nvidia-180-modaliases Transitional package … Continue reading →

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Oh Microsoft your tactics bore me so

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Shane

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 … Continue reading →

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