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Archive for October 2007

October 30th, 2007

Upload photos to Flickr via Postr

I was looking for a random package to try out and because I was curious if there was a Flickr uploading tool in the repositories, I just had to search for one. It’s a Gnome-based app so it looks so nice with my Ubuntu desktop. :) The maintainer of this useful package is Robert […]

By Clair -- 5 comments

October 29th, 2007

Some troubles with the Broadcom driver

I’ve been having troubles with my Broadcom driver. I used the Restricted Drivers Manager to install it when I upgraded to Gutsy Gibbon. However, it seems to be still a little bit funky at times. The other evening it suddenly couldn’t connect me to the wifi network in the office. I […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

October 27th, 2007

Openbox 3 as a your window manager - without much fuss!

I just installed Openbox recently and that’s because I miss it’s simplicity and very clean look. I used to have it as my main window manager, but I have heard and read of its use as a replacement for Metacity. People have set it up and have written neat how-to’s but turns out […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

October 25th, 2007

When dual-booting and you don’t want to lose files…

Just make sure that you have shutdown the other OS properly before you switch to the next one. I’ve been alternating between Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux these days that I sometimes forget that I come from ‘hibernate’ or suspend sometimes. I just boot up my laptop and choose on the GRUB menu […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

October 25th, 2007

Some notes about using Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

If you have a Broadcom driver for wifi, it might not always work nicely. Then again, check with your sys ad if it’s the network that is problematic. In my case, there are times when I find it difficult to connect via wifi.
The Compiz settings: You have three choices. You could choose none. […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

October 25th, 2007

Twitux

Thanks to Chris Rohde, I learned about Twitux!
So what is Twitux? It is one of them Twitter clients but it’s a Gnome-based one. You could view your friends twits as well as the public timeline. It’s really simple in terms of features. It’s a way that you could access Twitter without going to the web […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

October 23rd, 2007

It’s all about pink and purple on GNOME

I am already running my laptop on Gutsy Gibbon and I simply had to tweak how it looks! I am in my pink and purple phase right now and so I decided to look for pink and purple stuff to use on my Gnome desktop :D

Just click it to enlarge.
The background is a picture […]

By Clair -- 5 comments

October 22nd, 2007

Deb a Day - where you read about those lovely deb packages everyday!

I didn’t really know that a blog called Deb a Day existed before. It surely is an interesting blog with lots of informative write-ups about various deb packages. Some of them you probably never heard of before!
What I love about this blog is that it goes beyond the man page. It’s really […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

October 20th, 2007

Linux distro poll results as of October 20, 2007

Here are the results of the Linux distro poll as of this moment:

PCLinuxOS
96% of all votes

Ubuntu
7450% of all votes

Mint
32% of all votes

SUSE
107% of all votes

Fedora Core
139% of all votes

Kubuntu1
107% of all votes

Slackware1
43% of all votes

Xandros1
32% of all votes

Mandriva1
21% of all votes

Arch1
21% of all votes

Mandriva1
21% of all votes

Debian1
117% of all votes

uhu1
11% of all votes

CentOS1
21% of all […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

October 19th, 2007

“Download now: Ubuntu + Crack + Serial”

Download now the new Ubuntu total free, FULL version (not shareware) and without virus!!! The following file is ready for use, you don’t even need to write the serial. Just burn a CD and use it (you can just use without install, if you want to)…
Andre Noel sure has a sense of humor about how […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

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