Ruminations on the Digital Realm


Archive for March, 2007

New avenues

Good news. My good friend Jos Herni is expanding the reach of his website Digiplace. He is into Linux for way longer than I am and his website is great resource for people who want to find real life solutions for problems end-users face. He loves Ubuntu and designates himself as a “Gnomer”.
His website has [...]

Friday, March 30th, 2007

Alienising my laptop

I used my laptop to write the annual report for the organisation I work for. And -since I had to be online constantly- I had to write it under Windows. See, I can not get the wifi running, not even with the Feisty beta. No problem, I checked online and my laptop is on the not-supported [...]

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Changing the look of Wine

One of the nicer things of Linux is that you have tons of thinkerers around. One of my online buddies who goes by the nick of Tripl showed this solution to change the default look of Wine (simply horrible) into the human theme of Ubuntu.

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Monday, March 26th, 2007

"But I use…."

Doesn’t it annoy you as well? In a forum or on an IRC channel someone asks a question about a program in Linux. “How do I change the settings in xorg.conf? “. The answer is swift. “Open a terminal and type $ sudo gedit /etc/xorg.conf and….”. After that it is a matter of time and [...]

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

Ubuntu Feisty Fawn beta already

As I wrote in a previous post it is fascinating to see the speed of development. It sometimes feels I have to download updates on a daily basis.
With three weeks to go Feisty Fawn has been released as beta. There are a few tools that are new, like the Migration tool that helps you to [...]

Saturday, March 24th, 2007