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Ubuntu 11.10’s WiFi crashes my router
No seriously, it does. Whenever it makes a connection to the router it causes it to enter some bad state wherein it refuses to allow […]
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How to install sun-java6-jdk and Netbeans in Ubuntu 11.10
If you’ve recently upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 and are a developer you may notice some things missing. For one there is no longer an option […]
Big distributions, little RAM 3
Once again I’ve decided to re-run my previous tests this time using the following distributions: Debian 6.0.2 (GNOME) Fedora 15 (GNOME 3 Fallback Mode) Fedora […]
Fix PulseAudio loopback delay
Sort of a follow up (in spirit) to two of Jon’s previous posts regarding pulse audio loopback; I noticed that there was quite a bit […]
Two monitors. Different resolutions. One desktop.
If you’ve ever tried to set up two monitors on Linux you’ll know that its a relatively painless process. The only issue that I’ve found […]
Android development in Netbeans
So you want to do Android development but you hate Eclipse? Well fear not, there is another IDE that you can use to meet your […]
Create a GStreamer powered Java media player
For something to do I decided to see if I could create a very simple Java media player. After doing some research, and finding out […]
Create a GTK+ application on Linux with Objective-C
As sort of follow-up-in-spirit to my older post I decided to share a really straight forward way to use Objective-C to build GTK+ applications. Objective-what? […]
One week, three distributions (Day 7: Conclusions)
Well it’s been an interesting week. I’ve gotten to try out three new distributions and share my thoughts with everyone here. My original goal was […]
One week, three distributions (Day 6: Linux Mint Debian Edition)
To round out the week I installed the newly released Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE). Like the other posts I have made I will walk […]
One week, three distributions (Day 4: Ubuntu 10.10)
Continuing where we left off I am now ready to report my first impressions of Ubuntu 10.10. I should start by apologizing a little bit, […]
One week, three distributions (Day 2: Kubuntu 10.10)
As noted in my previous post I have decided to try out a mini experiment wherein I test out three recently released distributions (Kubuntu 10.10, […]
One week, three distributions (Day 0)
With the recent releases of Linux Mint Debian Edition, Ubuntu and Kubuntu 10.10 I am once again starting to feel that need to hop around […]
Do something nice for a change
Open source software (OSS) is great. It’s powerful, community focused and, lets face it, free. There is not a single day that goes by that […]
Compile Windows programs on Linux
Windows?? *GASP!* Sometimes you just have to compile Windows programs from the comfort of your Linux install. This is a relatively simple process that basically […]
Trying out the Chakra Project
After a little bit of pressure from the people responding to my previous post (My search for the best KDE Linux distribution), I have finally […]
Big distributions, little RAM 2
As a follow up to my previous post I have decided to re-run the tests, this time with the updated distributions (where available of course). […]
Very short plug for PowerTOP
Recently I decided to try out PowerTOP, a Linux power saving application built by Intel. I am extremely impressed by how easy it was to […]
Fixing gnustep-devel in Ubuntu 10.04
When Ubuntu 10.04 was released it represented the most modern incarnation of Canonical’s premier Linux desktop distribution. However not all things were better in this […]
Fix ATI vsync & video tearing issue once and for all!
NOTE: ATI’s most recent drivers now include a no tearing option in the driver control panel. Enabling it there is now the preferred method. Two […]