Archive for the ‘Dapper’ Category
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
After disliking camera phones and people using camera phones for a long long time, I finally gave up and bought myself one. I am totally in love with my new camera phone. I love it for making things so easier. I can plugin my phone and share pictures and videos ...
Posted in Dapper, Gnome, Linux, Ubuntu, applications | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
Recently I realized that the Disks utility was showing 8.6 GiB consumed on my Ubuntu partition (I have Xubuntu installed on another partition and have one FAT partition). I decided to free up some disk space by deleting temporary files. I found that there is no tool in Dapper to ...
Posted in Dapper, Gnome, KDE, Linux, Tips, Ubuntu | No Comments »
Monday, November 13th, 2006
I haven't upgraded to Edgy yet. I really want to but I am afraid to loose the stability, usefulness and the charm of Dapper that comes with Long Term Support. I was looking around to see what kind of trouble people facing while upgrading to Edgy from Dapper. To my ...
Posted in Dapper, Edgy, Linux, Tips, Ubuntu | 3 Comments »
Sunday, November 12th, 2006
Dennis talked about the issue of unhealthy Ubuntu systems and how they interrupt between distribution upgrades. Dennis presents a list of signs to identify a possibly unhealthy system. He writes:
What makes an Ubuntu system unhealthy, you'd say - well here are a few examples:
Automatix/easyubuntu/fasterdapper
Third party packages
checkinstall'ed or alien'ed packages
The problem ...
Posted in Dapper, Edgy, Tips, Ubuntu | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
So many people complained to me that they do not enjoy gaim because it does not supports Yahoo! web cam. Personally I don't like web cams, but there are so many people out there who love to use Yahoo! messenger with web cam support. I wanted to assure people that ...
Posted in Dapper, Free Software, Linux, Tips, Ubuntu, Web | 4 Comments »
Sunday, October 1st, 2006
Microsoft's ISA server firewall is the tool used every where on networks in Pakistan and it is the second most common problem for Linux advocates in Pakistan. The first most common problem is getting drivers for win modems.
My Cable Internet service provider also uses the same stupid MS ISA server ...
Posted in Dapper, Linux, Networking, Pakistan, Tips, Ubuntu, activism | No Comments »
Monday, August 21st, 2006
Support forums and Ubuntu Wiki are full of articles to help out people using Ubuntu Dapper on older machines. I am using Ubuntu Dapper with a 800 MHZ processor and 256 MB of RAM. Ubuntu runs well on my system it is not slower than my previous operating system (Windows ...
Posted in Dapper, Epiphany, Gnome, Tips, Ubuntu | 6 Comments »