Archive for the ‘Misc’ Category
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Alex at 'The tech and other cents' has a great post titled "There's more to Linux than Ubuntu". He is worried that Ubuntu will overshadow Linux. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "", url: "http://ubuntu.sabza.org/2008/01/04/75/" });
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
Recently my internet service provider gifted me a webcam. It is a Creative Vista Webcam and came with an installation disk for Windows. I wanted to see how it works on my Ubuntu Linux. When I plugged it in Ubuntu didn't recognize it. I had to download drivers for it. ...
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Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
I still haven't upgraded to Drapper, with my slow internet connection I was unable to download Dapper. So I ordered a Desktop CD from Shipit. Rechecking the Drapper Upgrade instructions again, I found that I will not be able to upgrade to Dapper using the Desktop CD. I will need ...
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Sunday, May 7th, 2006
Jason Norwood-Young takes a first look at Ubuntu Dapper Drake Beta. Another noteworthy read is Jane Silber's interview he gave to computer world Australia. I am quite excited about trying the new version of Ubuntu. With my limited bandwidth it is nearly impossible for me to download the beta versions. ...
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Thursday, May 4th, 2006
There is a firefox extension called "Colorzilla". I used this extension with Firefox in windows, but I am unable to get it work in Ubuntu. I needed a tool to pick up colors from other web pages, my own blog pages and images on the web. I can use Gimp ...
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
Gedit is not notepad for Ubuntu Linux. It is a text editor which is not similar to the Microsoft window's notepad. It is the official text editor of Gnome desktop environment and Ubuntu Breezy Badger. It has many great features that notepad lacks:
Tabs, you can open multiple files in the ...
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Thursday, April 13th, 2006
Ubuntu Linux is very easy to use, it simply works. But I am new to Linux and I have no Idea why Linux is different or better than any other operating system. I also need to learn more about Ubuntu to further familiarize myself with the system I am using. ...
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