Posts Tagged ‘ ubuntu ’
I had a little trouble getting the android emulator running on my laptop. I wanted to start debugging why andnav2 is no longer working. Hopefully Nicolas can get it fixed, but it appears that he’s quite busy The first problem I ran into was that the buttons in the tools/android application where not responding [ READ MORE ]
I upgraded early to Ubuntu 9.10 release and have been overall very satisfied with the changes. 3d effects are back, thanks to fixed intel drivers, kernel has been upgraded and suspend + boot is faster, and Emacs has been upgraded to 23 I just had one problem when upgrading, namely that QT applications [ READ MORE ]
I was flaming Ubuntu in an earlier post for their lack of quality in their releases, so I thought it would be fair to give them credit when it is due. They have a project called One Hundred Paper Cuts where they try to fix low hanging fruit, easy bugs but annoying bugs. Bugs that [ READ MORE ]
Getting Chrome running in Ubuntu is now pretty easy, simple add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable main Then you can install Chrome using the package manager and it will keep itself updated. Sadly the browser is quite alpha (no flash, random errors, no tabs saving on exit) but they update it every week and [ READ MORE ]
I recently upgraded the harddrive in my trusty old IBM T60. I mirrored the hd using a little dd magic and everything worked fine, including the IBM rescue partition. The only thing that wasn’t working anymore was hibernation in Ubuntu. This was because it relied on wierd UUIDs instead of actual device names. Fixing it [ READ MORE ]
There’s an annoying problem in Ubuntu 9.04 that if you have set your machine to automatically login, but have a password on gnome keyring manager, then it will prompt you for the password before wireless is enabled. There is a bug about it here on launchpad. And as usual the Ubuntu guys doesn’t seem to [ READ MORE ]
I’m the founder of a small consultancy company with a strong focus on web applications. I’m also the founder of the community art site YayArt, that sells canvas and prints of digital art. My lovely girlfriends blog can be read here.
