Blast from the Past: Create a GTK+ application on Linux with Objective-C
This post was originally published on December 8, 2010. The original can be found here. Note that while you can still write GTK+ applications on Linux […]
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Blast from the Past: Going Linux, Once and for All
This post was originally published on December 23, 2009. The original can be found here. With the linux experiment coming to an end, and my […]
Fix: trying to overwrite ‘/usr/share/accounts/services/google-im.service’ installing kubuntu-desktop
I have an Ubuntu 16.04 desktop installation with Unity and wanted to try KDE, so I ran sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop. apt failed with the […]
Listen up, Kubuntu: the enraging tale of sound over HDMI
Full disclosure: I live with Kayla, and had to jump in to help resolve an enraging problem we ran into on the Kubuntu installation with […]
Installing Netflix on Kubuntu
The machine I am running Kubuntu on is primarily used for streaming media like Netflix and Youtube, watching files off of a shared server and […]
What is this, text for ants? Part II
Back to my shit-tastic eyesight for a moment. Now that we have our Bluetooth devices installed, I can now sit in front of my projector, instead […]
Installing Bluetooth devices on Kubuntu
This is actually a much easier process than I imagined it would be. First: Ensure your devices (mouse, headphones, keyboard, etc…) are charged and turned […]
What is this, text for ants? Part I
Unlike many people who may be installing a version of Linux, I am doing so on a machine that has a projector with a 92″ […]
This isn’t going well.
Today I started out by going into work, only to discover that it is NEXT Friday that I need to cover. So I came home […]
Come on, really?!
So it is 9:40 PM and I started my “Find a Linux distro to install” process. Like many people, I decided to type exactly what […]
Limit Bandwitdth Used by apt-get
It’s easy. Simply throw “-o Acquire::http::Dl-Limit=X” in your apt-get command where X is the kb/s you wish to limit it to. So for example let’s […]
It should not be this hard to change my volume
Normally my laptop is on my desk at home plugged into a sound system, so I never have to change the volume. However I’m currently […]
Representing kubuntu
I’ve decided to roll Kubuntu 11.10 for this round of The Linux Experiment. Why Kubuntu? Well, a while back one of my teachers used xubuntu […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Great Linux Browser War (Well… sort of)
Recently while browsing the Internet I noticed that Mozilla Firefox was taking up an awfully large amount of RAM. In fact it’s RAM use continued […]