Edward Andrew Robinson » upgrade http://www.earobinson.org “Brilliant people simplify things, and mediocre people complicate things.” — Unknown Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:52:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Hello World 2.5 http://www.earobinson.org/2008/03/29/hello-world-25/ http://www.earobinson.org/2008/03/29/hello-world-25/#comments Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:30:10 +0000 Edward Andrew Robinson http://www.earobinson.org/?p=96 Today I updated to wordpress 2.5, and I have to say its great. I love the new interface. As well as updating in response to all the websites stealing planet Ubuntu content I am going to try using the ©Feed plugin for wordpress. So we will see how that goes and I hope the plugin is not to invasive for people.

I am also loving playing with the Hardy Heron Beta and am looking forward to upgrading all my machines when it officially comes out.

In other news my girlfriend has now been using Ubuntu since Christmas and has promised to help me write a post about her experience.

Edit: I have nothing against other sites hosting my posts as long as I get a backlink.

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  1. Wordpress Bugs and My Call For Help
  2. Hello World 2.6
  3. Hello World 2.3.2

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  1. Hello World 2.6
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  3. Wordpress Bugs and My Call For Help

]]> http://www.earobinson.org/2008/02/02/hello-world-232/feed/ 2 Top 10 Gutsy Forum Feature Requests Revisited http://www.earobinson.org/2007/10/18/top-10-gusty-forum-feature-requests-revisited/ http://www.earobinson.org/2007/10/18/top-10-gusty-forum-feature-requests-revisited/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:07:43 +0000 Edward Andrew Robinson http://www.earobinson.org/?p=55 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 wrote the original list I had a bit of trouble coming up with 10 and in my opinion “Allow Us To Vote (like ideastorm, digg, etc.) On Ideas Here.” while it would be a grate addition to the Ubuntu Forums is not a feature for Ubuntu and hence a bit of a cop-out. All the same with the release of Gutsy I think its about time I revisited that list and commented on that list again and congratulate everyone who worked on it.

10. [IDEA] Nautilus “Restore from Trash” – Still not implemented. This feature would be quite hard to implement and for me it is a very low priority, but I can see why other users would want it.

9. [IDEA] Modify the installer so that it asks for Timezone instead of City. – While this did not happen, as far as I could tell there where a lot more cities to pick from during the install.

8. [IDEA] Reliable Kill for Fullscreen Applications – I think the best way to do this is still <Alt>f2 then type xkill then click the application.

7. [IDEA] Auto removal of old kernels - Unknown so I will assume no. (kernels are removed during a dist upgrade, thanks Kai Schröder)

6. [IDEA] Bring back screensaver settings - The new screensaver settings manager is still being used, how do I change a screensavers options in this gui?

5. [IDEA]: Warning about disk being full – Nope, per this blueprint on launchpad this feature never got out of the idea stage. (This feature might be included according to Kai Schröder … Thanks)

4. [IDEA] External Monitor Support – This feature is now included, however using the propitiatory drivers nvidia-settings gave me more options

3. [idea] Fix the delay when searching in Synaptic – It feels faster, but then this is a fresh install.

2. [IDEA] Graphical Frontend for xorgconfig (dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg) – This works really well. I’m really glad to see this feature.

1. Allow Us To Vote (like ideastorm, digg, etc.) On Ideas Here. – As I said before this is a cop-out and It has not been implemented on the Ubuntu Forums, however the forum staff did a great job of communicating the forums needs.

So that gives us about three 3.5 (I rounded to three 3.5 because there was a few half implemented features ex feature 9) out of the nine (I’m not counting feature number 1) features that I blogged about all that time ago and that doesn’t even include the 10 rocking features in 10 days. All in all I think that makes Great Gutsy Gibbon.

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