With the release of Ubuntu 9.10 – the Karmic Koala, a new range of desktop wallpapers have been included. If you are not upgrading your Ubuntu yet, or want to get them for your Mac or Windows machine you can get them here. See the Creative commons license (copying) if you are unsure about the [...]
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Windows7 is released today and in London customers queued in the streets overnight to be the first to get a copy. Big deal! Not long now and a new release of Ubuntu is out. Ubuntu (the Linux brand I currently use) releases a new version every six months. Windows 7 is supposed to be the [...]
Once again Linux puts a smile on my face! I had been getting problems with BBC iPlayer on my Ubuntu system so went to the Ubuntu forums for advice on how to sort it. There I discovered get_iplayer. This is a free programme from LinuxCentre.net that does much more that the BBC iPlayer, it streams [...]
What a pain! It seemed simple! I had used Gnome Screenlets a while ago but didn’t stick with them. I decided I would give them a whirl again but came up against a problem. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, Screenlets are the desktop gadgets that you find on the Mac known as [...]
The last Ubuntu upgrade included a kernel upgrade which messed with the wireless internet connection on my Samsung NC10 (see previous post). What I did not notice straight away was that it also brought back one of the problems we have to deal with when first installing Ubuntu on the NC10, the speakers still working [...]
I lost wireless on the last Ubuntu upgrade. I searched the forums but for a while it had me stumped. As I have dual-boot I went into the XP side and the wireless worked there fine. But not back in Ubuntu. In the terminal, if I ran ‘iwconfig’ I got: lo no wireless extensions. eth0 [...]
I wanted to export the addresses from my Linux email programme ‘Evolution’ into a format that could be used elsewhere. I wanted to use them into my Gmail account. I searched for a solution and came across incredibly complicated solutions that did not appeal to me. I discovered one site where some very clever whiz [...]