So, after reading Mark Shuttlework’s blog on ideas for notifications in Ubuntu (basically mimicking Growl notifications for the Mac), I decided I wanted that kind of functionality, but… you know, NOW!
There are a multitude of options available but currently I’m liking Mumbles. Unlike, say, Specto, which does the monitoring itself, Mumbles provides a DBus interface, [...]
At my office I had been having a problem with my Ubuntu and Fedora boxen having problem connecting to external sites. Some would work, albeit slow, where as others would not work at all (e.g. trying to connect to reddit in Firefox would get enough of the page to display the <title></title> tags but it [...]
After upgrading to Subclipse 1.4.0 on my Ubuntu 8.04 laptop, I would try to go in and use the console to update some of my projects. Unfortunately, Ubuntu’s Hardy repos don’t have Subversion 1.5 so I got this message:
svn: This client is too old to work with working copy ‘.’; please get a newer Subversion [...]
Peter Zaitsev posted a very interesting test on how PHP and Apache handle runaway PHP scripts.
I’m sure all of us have had a long executing SQL script or at least a runaway script, and he points out even with ignore_user_abort set to FALSE and max execution times set both in PHP and Apache, a runaway [...]
Messing around with CompizConfig the other day and discovered a nifty tweak: blur your transparent terminal windows!
To do this you need CompizConfig installed:
sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager
Once installed, go to System > Preferences > Advanced Desktop Effects Settings. Scroll down to Effects and enabled Blur Windows. Then click the Blur Windows button to open the configuration [...]
Matt Kohut posted on the Lenovo corporate blogs a very good sign of industry Linux support.
According to Kohut, Lenovo will be expanding its Linux offerings not just by expanding their preloaded selection, but by porting the ThinkVantage software (their “Craplet but Not Craplet” driver/application suite) to Linux.
Normally all I see as far as far as [...]
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