Haven’t blogged in over a month – so much for regular updates and such. Oh well. New version of Ubuntu is out, haven’t upgraded yet due to lack of hard drive space – still haven’t done the warranty RMA on my big, but glitched, 500GB drive. Maybe next week. I have played with Lucid on [...]
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Lucidity
There’s still search engines out there other than Google? Really?
Perhaps the F stands for “Fail”?
Recent news that Ubuntu will likely be giving up the GIMP as part of the default install are interesting, but not a huge concern to me – I already have to install Inkscape, so adding the GIMP to the huge sudo aptitude install command I run on a shiny new Ubuntu install isn’t a big [...]
How To Get Backup Religion
… have your entire system freeze solid, and then, in the recovery console, fsck choke because of a galloping screenful of badblock errors. Then you realize you have no working LiveCDs in the house. And your last backup dates from April. Oh crap. That was Sunday night; Monday I went down to my brother’s, snagged [...]
Something To Do With Koalas?
Upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 along with everyone else in the world (and their dog) last night. Had a bit of a scare when the computer wouldn’t mount /home, but a reboot and fsck during startup cleared that up. Then I realized I had no 3d accel… this after having flawless 3d accel in 9.04 with [...]
Speedtest Planet Meme
Everyone else is doing it, so here’s mine. Nice low ping, decent download speed, but wildly assymetrical Download vs Upload, even by the (low) standards of the ISP.
Ubuntu One, Irony, and Open Sourcing
Disclaimer, because they seem to be popular when posting UbuntuOne commentary to Planet Ubuntu right now: These are my opinions. I don’t work for Canonical, I don’t program, I’m just an Ubuntu user, Ubuntu Member, and opinionated SOB. End stupid attempt at disclaimer. When you go to log in to the new, shiny & controversial [...]
Panoramas & Snow, Round 2
As a followup to my previous post on Hugin troubles (many thanks for the feedback there, everyone) I’ve done some more fiddling, and discovered the main issue: Hugin will export completed panoramas happily in TIFF, but not in other formats (JPG, PNG, etc) despite those options appearing in Hugin’s dropdown menus. It crashes or freezes [...]
Snow, Panorama Apps, and other Irritations
We might just have a white Christmas here – bleh. The white stuff started falling on Saturday, has started up again today, and temps that refuse to rise above 1šC look set to keep the snow around for a while yet. The above was created in GIMP with the Pandora panorama plugin, which works after [...]
