Posts tagged “Ubuntu”
PHP, Mumbles (Growl), and DBus: Sweeet
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 [...]
Ubuntu Linux slow/bad internet connection problems
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 [...]
SVN Client Too Old (In Ubuntu)?
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 [...]