No, this isn’t about the stupid max_waves conflict with Apple’s patent that everyone has been ranting (and working around) for the last few years. From what I hear the future 0.9.0 release won’t be hampered by it, but how does Compiz fair with patents? Who made Compiz, and who’s working on it today? From my …
Leaves are falling, it’s okay to wear costumes for a day this month, and Ubuntu 9.10 will be released under the name Karmic Koala. Before I get into some review, it’s hard for me to anticipate this release because of the recent history with this distribution. Over time I’ve seen Ubuntu improve in many ways, …
It’s been mailed and blogged about to death, but I’ll explain how to increase you TCP performance for usage on a laptop or notebook that will having heavy bandwidth usage. With a common cable provider and wireless device ratings these days you can get about 2 MB/sec connections. However, it’s unlikely you’ll find many HTTP …
It’s interesting to see what’s happening with the latest Ubuntu (9.10, Karmic Koala), which is in Alpha 4 of testing. Firstly, I would like to point out that I think the releases are getting slightly worse as of recent, which may be partly due to the economic crisis and lack of good developers being fully committed. …
I am addicted to the “Open Terminal” plugin for Nautilus. I have a lot of different SFTP bookmarks and mounts, and I always want to open an SSH terminal using the menu. However, anyone using Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) knows that it’ll crash the file browser, which is a serious bummer. I’ve backported the package from …
If you’ve installed a GNOME Applet, but you can’t see it in the Add menu, then you’ll either have to reload gnome-panel or wait a while. Reloading isn’t the cleanest thing, but you can do it by executingkillall gnome-panel and then gnome-panel via ALT+F2. Doing this in a normal terminal isn’t advised, because if that …
I’ve reported this bug about the “Close Window” tooltip getting stuck above all other windows and not going away. Until the bug is fixed, if you encounter this problem you can workaround it by pressing ALT+F2 and issuing the command gtk-window-decorator –replace. This will cause gtk-window-decorator to be reloaded.
If you want to use Skype or record audio with any other application you may have to slightly configure your microphone. This post isn’t an exhaustive list of all the possible ways to get your recording working Ubuntu, but really is targeted to anyone who has similar hardware or where the solution is the same. …
Who would have thought I would be writing an article about how Linux is too good at keeping memory usage low? I don’t want memory to be used badly or stupidly, but I really hate swapping and virtual memory slowdowns (My finger is pointing at you Java). I’ve tried all the “fixes” (such as setting …
Ubuntu stores it’s GTK themes in a user directory located at ~/.themes, since installing a new theme should not require administrator access. This is great for adding your own themes, which you can do by draggin them into the theme manager window, but applications ran as the root user will appear awkward as they are …