Congratulations to David and Jonathan who was elected to the Ubuntu EMEA Regional Board. It is great to see 2 South Africans flying the Ubuntu flag. Here is the full EMEA Board: Jonathan Carter (still on board) Laura Czajkowski Alan Pope Dennis Kaarsemaker Stéphane Graber Oliver Grawert David Rubin Also good to see some ladies […]
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Marius
Yes, upgraded one of my Karmic desktops to Lucid. It was the machine that I guessed would have been the easiest to upgrade since it was a fresh install of Karmic and not much was added in the sense of PPA’s. The upgrade went smooth except at one place it poped up a window that […]
So Ubuntu 10.04 was released yesterday with some problems. First there was the memory leak issue and then some issue around GRUB2 which meant that the ISO’s had to be re-rolled. I have 3 machines that needs to be upgraded over the next week or so. One of them is my IBM (yes I work […]
I was asked by a company to advise them on their business processes and how to automate this and just create an more integrated online environment. While I was meeting with them, they mentioned to me that they pay another company R2500.00 a month for a SEO report. I asked to have a look at […]
I suppose there is lots like me that would love to work for Canonical. Now there is the why and the what. Here is my why and hopefully my readers can pitch in with the what part. So why? I believe in what Canonical is trying to achieve with Ubuntu and the way they are […]
If you want to disable your touchpad on Ubuntu 9.10 then issue the following commnad once:gconftool-2 –type boolean –set /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/touchpad_enabled false Then to disable the touchpad issue the following command:synclient TouchpadOff=1This command is just active for the session so when you reboot your machine you will have to issue it again. What I have done […]
I have a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and for a while now whenever I start Ovi Maps, it switches off the phone. This started when I had Ovi Maps 2. I upgraded to Ovi Maps 3 (the latest version) and also upgraded the phone firmware to version 31. Firmware version 40 is not available in my […]
This blog was just upgrade to version 2.9. If you see something wrong please let me know.
As you probably know there is a trojan running around that is installed via screen-saver via a .deb install. More here and here. The safest way to install anything on your machine is via the Official Repositories using apt-get, Synaptic or Ubuntu Software Centre. If you do need to install anything that is not in […]
You do not know what SUDO is .. then you must be a Windows fanboy. If you use Linux and/or Macs, you will use it on a daily basis. It is that little command that is in almost every distribution of Linux and also in Mac OSx that elevates your privileges to root for a […]