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By admin, October 28, 2010 19:43

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Well it’s good to know that updates bring change.

Many times change brings about a better way of doing things.  Other times it may bring change to old familiar ways and we may not like them.  Take the moving of the Gnome window buttons for minimize, maximize, and close.

The latest version of Ubuntu decided to move these buttons to the left side of the window.  This isn’t so strange.  Many OS’s over the years have had the close button on the top left, but rarely the other buttons.  I understand that Microsoft Windows has set the position on the right and when I adopted Windows as a OS I quickly became quite familiar with this method and today, take for granted their position since both KDE and Gnome Desktops for Linux did the same thing.   However as of Ubuntu 10.04 it’s now on the left.

Continue reading 'Move Buttons Back To The Right – Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx'»

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By admin, December 14, 2009 10:46

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Well its an interesting story but not one that has been a true surprise.  I found it interesting since there is so much controversy over the Apple App Store that this seems to be a catch-22 for Apple.  What Do I mean?  Let me outline.

1. Continue reading 'Apple Boots Molinker For Gaming Apps Store Rating System'»

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By admin, December 8, 2009 15:17

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If you are using Rythmbox and having trouble with getting windows shares to work, I found a neat workaround for this.  I am using Ubuntu 9.10  Karmic Koala which uses Gnome Desktop, and found a pretty simple solution, courtesy of launchpad.net which is the site where all bugs related to Ubuntu or any packages tracked back upstream can be filed, and hopefully solved.  This bug isn’t specific to Ubuntu or Gnome, but is actually a bug with Rythmbox.  You can read the bug at the link in this article, or simply follow these instructions.

From a shell or terminal (to open on click on “Applications” then “Accessories” then ‘Terminal’) copy and paste the following:

gnomevfs-ls smb://mywinpc/mymusic

Make sure before you hit enter to change ‘mywinpc’ to the actual NAME of the PC your share is located on, and ‘mymusic’ is changed to the name of the share your music is found.  This step will then display some output and tell you to then enter the username to login, the WORKGROUP name, and of course your password.  Once done it will majically mount the drive for you.

Now you should be able to start Rythmbox and select ‘Import folder’ and find this location readily available.

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By admin, November 27, 2009 18:14

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I wasn’t going to get into this too much since the download is one you’ll have to build and I didn’t want to go through all the motions to make this happen.  But it appears someone has created a Virtual Machine (VM) you can use to try it out.

http://gdgt.com/google/chrome-os/download/ is the place to get it at.  You will need to create an account on the site (free), download a copy of Chrome OS which they offer a link to do that and you’ll need a VM platform to get it working.  VMWare is what it’s designed for, but VirtualBox can also use vmware images but there could be issues (not all work perfectly) as you’ll see from the site.

http://www.vmware.com/products/player — To Get Vmware Player.  If you have a Mac you can use Fusion, and it should work find on other VMWare products.

http://www.virtualbox.org — To get VirtualBox, but I’d recommend installing it from your distributions repository for full support, other wise you’re on your own updating it and all that fun stuff.

http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html — Source from Google, may have to jump through some hoops to download it

http://gdgt.com/google/chrome-os — To Get Chrome OS ready to go.

Note: all these links can be found on gdgt.com directly from the first link in this article.  I include them for convenience.

Also you can review TechCrunch’s web site that will give you some step-by-step instructions along with a torrent link to download it from also

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/19/guide-install-google-chrome-os/

Have fun!

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By admin, November 1, 2009 14:03

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I have been running a links related mailing list for several of my friends and fans over the last few months and I’ve decided that I would make the list available to the general public. One person suggested I use twitter to announce new posts, but I’m still adverse to getting a twitter account at this point.  I finally got my spam down to nil tyvm and want to keep it that way.  However…I could change my mind.

This mailing list is simply a mailout published infrequently seldom more than twice a week and has the latest in technology events, the latest gadgets and toys, privacy and copyright issues, funny videos and some astronomy/aeronautics and science stuff on occasion.  Submissions are allowed and welcomed but no guarantee they will show up.  I don’t manage the content on the list and it isn’t censored so you may encounter content that may not be suitable for a younger audience.  Viewer discretion is advised.  The list is moderated by me.

If you want to subscribe simply visit this link and follow the instructions.  If you have any concerns or questions don’t hesitate to send me an email or contact me via this site.