On of the best features that linux has in my opinion is synaptic, I have said this before and I will say it again. Why is synaptic so great? You can fire it up and search for any package you like and then with a few clicks install that program. I have recently had two [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Ubuntu category.
Ubuntu root access.
One of the greatest features that Linux has to offer, is the ability to customize your version so that it works the way you like it. Being a computer science student I have many friends that run linux, and many running windows (most dual boot). With some of my windows friends there is a bit [...]
Finite State Machine
Part of my goal with this blog is to write about the Ubuntu experience, I’m still working on a wireless writeup but it keeps getting pushed back because everyone knows about Ubuntu wireless. I’m a student at the University of Toronto, and I’m currently taking CSC363 — Computability and Complexity. Anyways I’m doing my first [...]
Top 10 Ubuntu Forum Feature Requests
Those of you who know me know I frequent the ubuntu forums quite a lot. As a result I get to see all the things that users are having trouble with as well as all of the new feature requests. These are my top ten ubuntu forum feature requests. As a disclaimer I’m not sure [...]
Synergy
Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s) –http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ I first learned about synergy about six months ago. At the time [...]
Ubuntu.com Was Down Today
I woke up at 6:00 this morning to download feisty before going to work and ubuntu.com was down (suffering from the /. effect). Guess that shows how popular ubuntu really is. Would be really cool to see some kind of server stats.
With Democracy Everyone Wins
Warning: There are reports that Democracy dose not work with feisty, see the comments for more info. Every once in a while you find that application that is truly amazing. With the up coming launch of Feisty, Democracy Player is the king of podcasts and vlogs for me. With Democracy you can subscribe to any [...]
/proc
I’m sitting in class the other day and my computer seems to be making a lot of noise, wondering what could be going on I start to explore. earobinson@NaN:/proc/acpi/thermal_zone$ cd /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/ earobinson@NaN:/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM$ ls cooling_mode polling_frequency state temperature trip_points earobinson@NaN:/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM$ cat * <setting not supported> cooling mode: critical <polling disabled> state: ok temperature: 57 C critical [...]
Logging the Ubuntu Experience
Ok a bit about me, I have been using linux for around 4 years, not really sure when I turned into a full-time linux but I know that it started with fedora core, and in time I switched over to Ubuntu. I Obtained my ubuntu membership in 2006 and really haven’t looked back. My goal [...]
My .vimrc file
In an effort to learn vim I have customized my .vimrc file, and now I release it into the public domain for you to comment on. ” Author: Edward Andrew Robinson ” Email: earobinson@gmail.com ” Mouse :set mouse=a ” Backup :set backup :set writebackup ” Search :set hlsearch ” Line numbers :set number ” Syntax [...]
