Linux Media Players Suck – Part 1: Rhythmbox
The state of media players on Linux is a sad one indeed. If you’re a platform enthusiast, you may want to cover your ears and […]
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Adobe Air and Fedora 12
This weekend, I installed Fedora 12 (Constantine) on my laptop, and I have to say that so far, I’m impressed. Thanks to the standard GNOME […]
Empathy: What a Piece of Garbage
The Empathy instant messaging client for Gnome is not yet ready to be the default client on your favourite Gnome-based distribution. In fact, I can’t […]
Installing Apache on Ubuntu 9.10
Tonight I decided that I’d like to be able to do some web development from home. The basic suite is called LAMP, which stands for […]
A Practical Reference of Linux Commands
Just wanted to share a link to a great table that I found – the practical reference of linux commands is a handy little table […]
Enabling Video Thumbnail Previews in Dolphin
Just a quickie here – if you keep video of any kind on your Kubuntu 9.10 system, you may have noticed that the Dolphin file […]
Pulse Audio Nonsense
Just a heads up: This isn’t the kind of post that contains answers to your problems. It is, unfortunately, the kind of post that contains […]
Finally Synching my Blackberry on Linux
Some readers may recall all of the attempts that I’ve made in the past to synchronize my Blackberry with Mozilla’s Thunderbird email and calendar client. […]
Filling a Zune from Linux
Thinking that I was up for a challenge, I decided to spend the day figuring out how to put the music in my Banshee library […]
Setting up an LVM for Storage
Recently, I installed Kubuntu on my PC. Under Windows, I had used RAID1 array to create a storage volume out of two extra 500GB hard […]
Going Linux, Once and for All
With the linux experiment coming to an end, and my Vista PC requiring a reinstall, I decided to take the leap and go all linux […]
Debian Device Driver Check
Just wanted to bring this website that I found today to everybody’s attention. It’s an online tool that checks if your hardware is supported by […]
How is it doing that?
Just about everything that I’ve ever read about media playback on Linux has been negative. As I understand the situation, the general consensus of the […]
A Tale of Two Fonts
I set my system font to Dingbat, which worked perfectly in every application except for Open Office. The strange part is that the font worked […]
Coming to Grips with Reality
The following is a cautionary tale about putting more trust in the software installed on your system than in your own knowledge. Recently, while preparing […]
Eclipse… Again
Man I’m beginning to sound like a broken record. Last night I reinstalled my Debian system. Somewhere along the line, I made a mess with […]
Configuring BlueZync and Failing at Barry
After successfully compiling and installing the BlueZync for Thunderbird plugin last night, I decided to take a shot at actually synchronizing my Blackberry with Thunderbird. […]
(Finally) Installing Bluezync for Thunderbird
After some constructive comments from Henrik, the developer of the BlueZync plugin for Thunderbird, I decided to take another shot at getting Blackberry sync working […]