I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Free Software Open Source Symposium 2007 (FSOSS07) this year and had a great time. While I did take some pictures I am still using my cellphone to take pictures since my digital camera has not been replaced yet (read poor university student) so I only [...]
Archive of entries posted on October 2007
AptUrl – Why don’t we use it for the Ubuntu wiki?
I often recommend Ubuntu to people and recommend that they install programs like miro, and geany. Geany comes stock in the Ubuntu repositories and miro has great step-by-step install instruction for beginners, however as I make this post they currently have no official Gutsy support. When I recommend a program to a user I usually [...]
New Hackergotchi
In light of the fact that I am now bald, today I uploaded a new hackergotchi to the planet ubuntu bzr tree. Uploading the picture was easy, making the picture was a bit harder. This is my first time using GIMP 2.4.0-rc3 and it seems that the selection tools don’t work the same way that [...]
Top 10 Gutsy Forum Feature Requests Revisited
A while back I posted about my top 10 feature requests for Gutsy on the Ubuntu Forums. Gutsy has brought some great new features to Ubuntu many of which I did not include in my original top 10 feature requests but if I was to do it again I probably would. In fact when I [...]
I have moved my blog … again.
I hope to have now found a new home at www.earobinson.org. Please report any broken links you find.
Map of The Internet
The other day I stumbled upon Chris Harrison’s internet map, the only problem I found with his map is that I wanted to know exactly which country each network connection was in. So using the DIMES public data repository, and 1site1moment’s country boarders I have mapped the internet for myself. From Public Feel free to [...]
