Shane Fagan » Ubuntu-ie

Irish translations in ubuntu

Shane — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:51:05 +0000

Im disappointed and saddened that foras na gaelige and the body behind gael scoils haven’t got back to me about ubuntu in Irish. I suggested that they can use their computers in Irish and that using ubuntu would allow the Irish language to be brought into the 21st century. I think the main thing is ubuntu is free to download and use. It seems like im being completely ignored but ill keep asking around and see who is interested in using ubuntu in Irish.
If you are interested I run the Irish translations team you can join that here. https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-l10n-ie
The page to translate is here
https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+lang/ga
To use ubuntu in Irish download and install ubuntu if you haven’t done it already. http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu
Then you just go to
system>administration>language support
Then you just select Irish from the list.

Shane_Fagan

The speed of heanet, the Irish Ubuntu Mirror

Shane — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:23:22 +0000

I found out that heanet who mirror Ubuntu in ireland offer a max speed of 20gbs (Giga-bytes a second).

For a country of 4 million people that is a lot of bandwidth to go around . Heanet is Ireland’s national education and research network and they offer a great service to the FLOSS community by mirroring Ubuntu and they do it for free. So thanks for the great service.

Edit: They recently upgraded to a 20gbs. I was going by https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+mirror/ie.releases.ubuntu.com-release .

Im on ubuntu-ie planet

Shane — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:14:29 +0000

Thanks to mean-machine for adding me to http://www.ubuntu-ie.org/aggregator

To all that dont know me my name is Shane Fagan.

IRC nick Shane_Fagan.

On launchpad shanepatrickfagan

On my blog I do like 90% ubuntu/linux and other FLOSS stuff. The rest politics.

My new computer

Shane — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:42:26 +0000

I got a new computer its a compaq presario. I got it for €400 soo worth it because my old computer was giving me a crap load of trouble. Whats in it amd sempron, nvidia 8200M G, webcam and a hd screen. Theres a few other things in there its just im lazy and I didnt want to start talking about what ports are in it etc. I have a dual boot going with vista(only for games) and ubuntu for everything else.

Tips for recovering ubuntu

Shane — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:32:33 +0000

Well since i switched to ubuntu I have messed with synaptic a lot. This can come back to bite you in the ass some times. Things you need in your system like x11 shouldnt be messed with because they control a lot of things in the system. So with my experience of breaking and fixing my ubuntu system on about 5 or 6 occasions ill try to help others who find themselves in similar trouble. I use Gnome so I dont know if these will work with kubuntu.

1. Try figure out what the problem is (sounds simple but its the first step for a reason)

2. Reboot the system (It might just sort itself out)

3. If ubuntu desktop doesnt load try failsafe gnome or failsafe xterm

4. If its not booting try hitting esc on GRUB and going into recovery

5. Reinstall ubuntu (This is the most drastic but sometimes is the only way)

If it comes down to reinstalling ubuntu its not so bad stick in the ubuntu disk load up the live session and you can recover your data by putting it on a usb stick or by transfering the info to another computer(Using ssh).

Good commands for xterm are

sudo apt-get update (Get the latest list of updates)

sudo apt-get install (install the new updates)

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo aptitude install (package name) (This is good if packages are broken or dependencies are unsatisfiable)

Hope this helps someone it helped me a few times. If I left anything out leave a comment and ill add it.