Microblogging Clients
I have recently discovered the world of microblogging, and I am hooked
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve tested a few microblogging clients. On my Ubuntu workstations I started out using Twitux, then switched to Thwirl after figuring out how to get Adobe AIR 1.5 installed on Ubuntu. However, when I started [...]
In: Messaging · Tagged with: Gnome, identi.ca, Linux, PocketPC, twitter, Ubuntu
Powerbook G3 (Old World) Ubuntu Install
Linux Distribution : Ubuntu Hoary 5.04
Last Update : January 9th 2006
James bought a PowerBook G3 to the January 2006 HantsLUG Bring-a-Box meeting and wanted to have Ubuntu installed on it. I used to be familar with Apple Mac computers in the mid to late 90’s because the company I worked for used Macs exclusively on [...]
In: General · Tagged with: G3, Linux, Old World, Powerbook, Ubuntu
Installing Adobe AIR 1.5 on Ubuntu
Recently I’ve been trying to get the new BBC iPlayer Desktop for Linux working on my Ubuntu workstation, it requires Adobe AIR 1.5 and Adobe Flash 10. Despite installing both on my Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit workstation the BBC iPlayer Desktop for Linux installer crashes Firefox everytime I try to install it, so more research required. [...]
In: Linux · Tagged with: 32-bit, 64-bit, Adobe, AIR, Flash, iPlayer, Linux, Thwirl, Ubuntu
NetworkManager and Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.04
A week or so ago the NetworkManager package was changed so that nm-applet (the system tray application) was seperated into it’s own package. After I updated and installed nm-applet, I noticed that it didn’t startup anymore. I didn’t have time to investigate this until this morning and found the answer in the following forum posting…
NetworkManager [...]
In: Linux · Tagged with: Linux, Network Manager, Ubuntu
The honeymoon is over
Despite my glowing comments about Fedora a couple of weeks back, the honeymoon period is well and truely over. My biggest gripe with Fedora is even with numerous compatible repositories enabled there isn’t a suitable selection of packages available and dependency breakage is all too frequent. Although I can build my own packages from source [...]
