Using gmails spam filters I normally don’t have a problem with spam. However my one email that does receive a lot of spam is my Ubuntu email address. Interestingly enough a few open source members have droped there open source email addresses due to this exact problem. Jeff Bailey has disabled his @gnu.org email address, [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Ubuntu category.
Cheating At Nethack
I’m not really a gamer, I think this has to do with a lack of skill, its no fun playing Americas Army if you die in 30 seconds, and yes they have a Linux installer. One game that I do come back to every now and then is nethack, however just like Americas Army I [...]
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 [...]
SUMming Up The Stats
I’m quite a fan of stats, checking my most viewed posts is a bit of an obsession of mine. On of my posts that continues to baffle me in how much activity it gets is my post about ubuntu root access. This post resulted in a friendly argument between me and a friend during class. [...]
SVN Error With Fix!
I have my own subversion repository, I use this to store my school work, personal data like my resume, and pretty much anything else I want to keep backups of or keep synced across all of my computers. The other day I was trying to do an svn up and I was getting the following [...]
Python vte.Terminal example
About a week ago while working on propensity, I was trying to add an impeded terminal into the program instead of just sending commands to an xterm. I quickly found out about the VTE Terminal Widget, this is the same widget used by the gnome-terminal. Now while I was able to find a great API, [...]
Propensity – feedback wanted
I have been using ubuntu for quite some time, and I have ubuntu installed on 20+ computers at one time. I find myself always installing ubuntu on a different computer. One of the things that I always do is install some programs that don’t come stock with ubuntu like geany, or miro. At first I [...]
Linux live CD as a window recovery tool
As a computer geek one of the first things people say to me when learn that I’m a computer geek is “can you fix my computer”. Now depending on my mood or how exactly they asked, offering beer is always a good idea, I usually respond with “I don’t use windows, and haven’t used it [...]
