I got two nice big flat screen monitors at work and another spare computer with a smaller monitor, so I’ve setup a decent 3 monitor setup on two different computers. My main system can do three monitors, but it would have to be split between nvidia and intel video drivers, which I don’t want to …
I got tired of Ubuntu One alerts advertisements in my nautilus, so I started looking for a way to disable them. I couldn’t find any way to hide the little message that says “Folder not synchronized”. I don’t use Ubuntu One much at all right now, but I was going to keep it around as …
I’ve been noticing some cool stuff in Ubuntu Maverick and in general have became interested in making high definition videos of Ubuntu running Compiz. Check out this video of Installing Fonts in Ubuntu Maverick (1080p). It’s in 1920×1080, but YouTube also makes available lower quality video.
As much as I love Launchpad, they are really slow. Browsing the site is usually painful, and waiting for builds on their systems gets old quick. I popped into #launchpad and asked if it was possible to get into their build cloud, but I was informed that it’s not currently possible and I didn’t get …
Sam pointed me to thread that had some build directions that he had put there. I’ve had trouble in the past getting Compiz 0.9 to run, usually with gtk-window-decorator not working. Update: This is really easy now because of Soreau’s script. Download Desktop.tar.gz which has the script with execute permissions and the source directory Delete …
Ubuntu Brainstorm idea reviewers have been dropping like flies the last few days. The idea is basically they are not participating and don’t want to add to an imaginary army of idea reviewers. Do you like Ubuntu? It doesn’t take much. I’m notoriously horrible at reviewing ideas, but I’ve turned this into an opportunity to schedule time …
If you’re getting an error about not being able to send mail through Evolution because of a URL being in the SURBL blacklist, then you may waste your time as I did looking for your domain on that list in attempt to understand what is happening. Chances are your domain has and never will be …
Ubuntu has been changing some things around with it’s notification icons and GNOME applets. Specifically the volume, power, e-mail and Rhythmbox applets. I could stand for most of that, but don’t mess with my music. My main complaint is that being part of the indicator-applet has broke some things I like, such as quickly showing/hiding …
Believe it or not, links aren’t just to HTTP(s) websites – they are for anything. You can link to FTP sites and file sharing services in the past have supported linking to content on their clouds, such as Magnet. With Ubuntu you can link to a package or application for a user to install from …
My friend Steven was raving about a plugin that adds support for the Twitter protocol to the Pidgin instant messenger. I’ve used a lot of other Twitter clients, but this is neat because it fits in with all my other instant messaging protocols. It would be nice if there was a PPA on Launchpad that …