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Ubuntu Jobs: What does it take to work for Canonical – I am asking?

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 […]

Ubuntu 9.10 – Disable touchpad

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 […]

Ubuntu – only install from official repositories

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 […]

Mircro$oft at it again — patents SUDO …

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 […]

Karmic Network Manager DSL Connections

From my earlier post you will know the problems that Network Manager has with DSL connections.  The latest release (2 November) from Network Manager Daily Build PPA solve some of the problems but not all. Solved: Non system wide connections now work again. Not Solved: System wide connection still does not connect The “inefficient privileges” […]

Karmic upgrade — Network Manager with DSL connections not working

Just upgraded from Jaunty to Karmic on my Desktop and everything went fairly smoothly.  One major issue is that DSL Connections with Network Manager does not work.  This worked fine in Jaunty.  I use a couple of different DSL accounts and switch between them as I need with Network Manager .. that was in Jaunty.  […]

2 Done, 2 to go

So what the heck am I talking about.  Since this is suppose to be a technical blog it can only be about Ubuntu and in this case upgrading to Karmic Koala ala Ubuntu 9.10. The first that was running Karmic is my Compaq Laptop and that has been on the Karmic road since Alpha 6 […]

Ubuntu 9.10 ala Karmic Koala is out – get it while it is hot.

I have been running Ubuntu on multiple machines since around the 7 release and yesterday Karmic Koala officially became Ubuntu 9.10.  I am already running it on one of my laptops and I must say, I am impressed with this release.  In my opinion this is the best Ubuntu release by far.  Congrats to the […]

APT-GET performance improvement

On some network connections (particularly my corporate network), I had this issue when APT-GET was updating the repositories or downloading packages that it just would stand still for a minute or so and continue then.  This would happen after every 100KB or so.  I have found the following settings that improved the performance a lot […]

IBM and Canonical takes on Africa

From Bob Sutor’s blog … partnership between IBM and Canonical to provide a software package for users of netbooks and other thin clients in Africa. The package, which can be configured in several ways to provide both netbook-based and cloud-based software, is expected to drive new business for local partners by taking advantage of open […]