Edward Andrew Robinson

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 [...]

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 [...]

 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]