<rant>There are many ways you can support open source projects. You can write code, you can help out other users, submit bug reports. Ubuntu has a great wiki page as to how you can contribute and many other open source projects do as well. And really the best way you can contribute is to get [...]
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Alive and Well (Just Busy)!
It has been ages since I last posted, and for that I am sorry, but I have kept up with my twitter and identica accounts. Things have been moving really fast for me of late and as a result my blogging has slipped. So whats new in the world of earobinson? I am now working [...]
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 [...]
Using Firefox + NoRedirect Extension to Avoid DNS Hijacking
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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 [...]
