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Archive of entries posted in the year 2009

Ubuntu Shirts

Hot off the press, get yours now at the Ubuntu store. Congratulations to everyone on the release of the Karmic Koala (late I know but I wanted to wait till I got my shirt)! And here is a picture of me modeling my Ubuntu shirts (and I know I look grumpy I was focusing on [...]

vrms: 16 non-free packages, 0.9% of 1712 installed packages.

Well yet another meem on planet ubuntu, and so without further ado: earobinson@MinusOne:/media/data/personal/hackergotchi$ vrms Non-free packages installed on MinusOne fglrx-modaliases          Identifiers supported by the ATI graphics driver linux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.28 modules helper script linux-restricted-modules- Restricted Linux modules for generic kernels nvidia-173-modaliases     Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org driver nvidia-180-kernel-source  NVIDIA binary kernel module source [...]

8 Open Source Websites I Use, and 2 I Don’t

I love lists, and I love open source software. Whats more I find that I am using more and more open source websites in my daily life. Without further ado here are 8 open source websites I use: # Site Comment Source 1 Wikipedia Great free encyclopedia Source 2 Reddit Social news site, similar to [...]

Using Firefox + NoRedirect Extension to Avoid DNS Hijacking

www.domainnotfound.ca

Speed meem

Since everyone else is doing it.

Limited Edition Jaunty Jackalope T-shirts

In keeping with tradition the ubuntu store (well canonical store) has released a Limited Edition Jaunty Jackalope T-shirt to celebrate the release of ubunut 9.04. Get yours now (I have and they went really fast last time), and congratulations to everyone who made Jaunty Jackalope a success!

Form Forum?

Dictionary.com defines a form as: a document with blank spaces to be filled in with particulars before it is executed: a tax form.  — source and a forum as: an assembly, meeting place, television program, etc., for the discussion of questions of public interest. — source Ok well I cherry picked the definitions that best [...]

Tweet Flow

With all the posts on planet ubuntu lately about twitter it got me thinking about my micro-blogging habits and how I update my online status in general. I started using twitter about a year ago, and since then I have become quite the huge micro-blogger. However a while ago I stopped thinking about it as [...]

earobinson.org is back up

earobinson.org went down for a bit tonight but it is now back up. Please let me know if you find any problems.

A reddit neutral vote!

A lot of this post could also be applied to the Ubuntu Brainstorm but since I use reddit (an open source social news site)  a lot more I will make this post about reddit, yet it could apply to any voting site. I use mainly reddit, and google reader to get my news online. Google [...]