Published on Tuesday, March 27 2007
Tired of having to use the web form based flickr upload process, and uploading six photos at a time?
or, tired of rebooting into windows just to upload photos?
I just discovered kflickr – it’s in the Ubuntu repository for Edgy. (Looks like it is in Dapper and Feisty as well)
(At a terminal, sudo apt-get install kflickr, or use aptitude and look for it by name)
Very nice. Take a look later today or tomorrow for some Zurich photos from today and yesterday.
Published on Tuesday, November 28 2006
Ever since I upgraded my (K)ubuntu install from Dapper Drake (6.06) to Edgy Eft (6.10) I’ve had a few rough edges. This morning I finally sorted them out.
The first was related to my Dell Lattitude D810′s touchpad – an Alps Glide touchpad. Ever since the upgrade it has been fundamentally unusable, moving the cursor so slowly I’d have to drag across the trackpad itself two dozen times to get the cursor halfway across the screen.
The second was related to using XGL and Beryl – hitting the keyboard combination Shift-Backspace would terminate and restart XGL, making me lose whatever unsaved work I had in that session. (I never knew how many times I hit Shift-Backspace until this).
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Published on Wednesday, August 9 2006
Having recently installed Kubuntu, I’m reacquainting myself with KDE.
Configuring your desktop (right click on the desktop and choose “Configure Desktop … ” or go to the K-Menu -> System Settings -> Desktop) gives you the option (in the behavior pane, under the Device Icons tab) to show device icons for various kinds of devices, mounted and unmounted.
Because I like having my mounted drives on the desktop, I went in a checked “Mounted Hard Disk Volume” to get my hard drive partitions (windows, shared, and Linux root) to show up.
That works, but they show up with names like “39 GB Media” and “9 GB Media.” I don’t know about you, but I don’t remember volumes by their size, and kept having to open and close volumes to know what they were.
But, I found a simple workaround, which works without having to think about disk labels and whether the partitions are ext3, NTFS, or FAT32.
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Published on Monday, August 7 2006
After reading a number of stories about Mac users switching to Ubuntu (Mark Pilgrim, Cory Doctorow, Bryan Lund and Chris Fisher), running into my cousin (Micah Anderson – he’s the one on the left) at my sister’s wedding, and being overwhelmed at the sheer volume of Ubuntu stickers, splash screens, and swag at Oscon 2006 (where the Ubuntu folks were second only to the ubiquitous Mac PowerBooks), I finally got around to setting up my Optaros-supplied Dell Latitude 810 to dual boot Ubuntu and Windows XP.
I have to say I’m very impressed. While it has been more than a couple of years since I’ve set up a dual boot system (I used to dual boot Yellow Dog Linux and Mac OS on early PPC Macs, then OpenBSD and Windows on intel), so it isn’t really fair for me to compare my Ubuntu experience with other distros, this was a fairly simple install, once I got past an initial partitioning scare.
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Published on Wednesday, May 31 2006
Penguin.SWF is a new blog at Adobe which claims to track “development status and issues regarding the Linux version of Adobe’s Flash Player” (according to the masthead).
Mike Melanson, the blog’s author, says he “may” ask for input on issues.
I’m hoping that means development of a Flash player for Linux is actually occuring, to the point where it has issues on which input could be required.
So far, there’s only one post (the “origin story”) and 73 comments – I’m assuming that ratio will even out over time.
