Viewing Articles with the tag: xubuntu
Small Firefox Tweak for the Slower Machines
15.Aug.06 | 2 Comments
I’ve largely moved all my IM stuff over to meebo for the past few weeks. I like it, it works well and it’s nicely suited to the number of machines I use. In fact, at home, I tend to have it running on my little Xubuntu laptop. (which is much more useful [...]
The Quest for Noise
14.Aug.06 | 2 Comments
Want a good way to blow a lot of hours? Try to get sound working on an old Thinkpad 600e laptop. After a long afternoon, I’m very close. Not perfect yet… but close enough for now.
As a refresher, I’m running xubuntu.
I started my quest with this article at the ubuntu forums. [...]
Think twice before tossing those old CDs.
13.Aug.06 | 5 Comments
Last week I went on a tear and cleaned my desk. In the process, I looked at stacks of burned ISOs and… pitched ‘em with the logic that if I really need them again, I’ll just re-download and burn.
Last night I wanted to install tsclient on my little xubuntu laptop. I’ve found that this little [...]
Xubuntu and Opera
13.Jun.06 | 1 Comment
Got home from work this evening much earlier than normal. Had some time to kill and decided this would be a good day to figure out how to go about getting Opera installed on my little Xubuntu laptop. Turned out to be relatively simple.
A quick google search located the Ubuntu / Opera wiki [...]
Quick update on the linux / old machine quest
05.Jun.06 | 1 Comment
Recap: I settled on Xubuntu for my old laptop. Things were good and it served the purpose quite nicely (casual web browsing primarily).
Then I broke it somehow. Had some good suggestions and did even finally manage to get to the console, but the log entries weren’t overly useful to me.
Meanwhile, I noticed [...]
On the other hand…OSX is a...