Ruminations on the Digital Realm


Archive for May, 2007

Loose ends and future planning

With just four days to go before the publisher’s deadline the book and the DVD are almost finished. Today I solved the final issues with the DVD. I am waiting for my co-writer to finish up his part and then the whole thing can go into the final phase.
No matter how well (or not) it [...]

Monday, May 28th, 2007

Ubuntu W2L edition beta 2

What is the Ubuntu W2L edition about?
We are working on a book about Ubuntu Linux that aims at Windows users who want to migrate to Linux or are considering it. The book is a step-by-step migration guide, but also want to provide a wide overview of what Linux has to offer for office applications, multimedia [...]

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Column: Sturm und Drang

It can never hurt to get yourself a Communications 101 course. I did get some more than that during my university years, but let’s stick to a simple model of communication. You have a sender/transmitter, the message and the receiver. To make it somewhat more complete: also take the medium into account as the carrier [...]

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

Adding Ubuntu Studio packages to Feisty Fawn

The information provided yesterday about adding the Ubuntu Studio theme to my Feisty Fawn box opened the way for another experiment. With the Ubuntu Studios repositories added to my sources.list it should be possible to install all specific packages via Synaptic. I know, you can do it also via the commandline, but I was curious [...]

Monday, May 14th, 2007

How to install the Ubuntu Studio theme

This is fun. Ubuntu Studio has just been released and some handy thinkerers have found out how to install just the theme on your default Ubuntu 7.04 box. The good thing is that it isn’t that hard to do.
First, edit the /etc/apt/sources.list (for instance by using $ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list) and add the line
deb http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio [...]

Sunday, May 13th, 2007