I’ve tried VirtualBox’s seamless mode in the past and had mixed results. It worked well enough last time I tried it in Ubuntu 7.10, but it didn’t play well with compiz-fusion. Now, having updated to Ubuntu 8.10 and the newer versions of various programs it comes with, I thought I’d try again, and I was [...]
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I just got it today and I’m very happy with it. It is exactly what I wanted; light, small, and powerful enough to do everyday things like web surfing and email.
The Linux install on it by default (Xandros, modified to work specifically on the EEE) is a bit of a pain to work with — [...]
Newer versions of Pidgin have the text input area resize to fit the text typed in, similar to Google Talk. This made a bunch of people all pissy, and now they want to fork Pidgin. The new project, funpidgin, intends to be just like Pidgin, only with a development team that cares about the users [...]
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I’ve been having a lot of fun playing Nexuiz recently. I have played previous versions, but the newest one looks amazing. Full HDR effects, lots of detail everywhere. If you have a good graphics card, I’d highly recommend you try it out.
Anyway, installation is fairly simple. Nexuiz is in the Ubuntu repositories, but I recommend [...]
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The PWN to OWN contest is finally over, and Ubuntu has won. Now that it’s official, I’m ready to go gloat on all the computer-related forums and blogs! YAY Linux FTW!!!
I kid, but this contest has prompted quite a lot of flame wars. Since no one seems to actually read up on the contest beyond [...]
It was a bit harder than I expected it to be (the new iPods are apparently encrypted somehow to prevent anything but iTunes from syncing with it), but now it’s working perfectly. It even downloaded all of my cover art.
Basically, all I had to do was compile a new version of libgpod and run a [...]
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I upgraded on Saturday, but I still haven’t gotten everything working. Right now sound capture isn’t working, and I only just got compiz-fusion working (which is weird, considering I had it working perfectly in Feisty; I had to remove it before the upgrade and reinstall it from the Gutsy repos, but all sorts of things [...]
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