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By admin, March 27, 2012 16:07

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Before the negative posts start arriving please understand that this is my comment to the editorial story on IDG which I’ve linked here for you entitled:

“http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=E7290BAD-D82E-48D3-7B44A9A6D5FAD161” “Why Linux on the Desktop Is Dead”

To clarify, I call any PC which a user sits at, that has the traditional keyboard, mouse and display a desktop PC.

I cannot fault the author of that article because it is simply true. You can convert users, but over time without good constant support from a real person they are likely to move back to Windows.

Continue reading 'Why The Linux Desktop Will Never Be Mainstream'»

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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, October 30, 2009 15:24

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If you’ve attempted to upgrade your Java from Sun and encountered this error, you probably were left scratching your head,  The link to Sun’s Help Resources have no effective solution at the time or writing this, it simply states:

The actual root cause of this issue is still under investigation…

Isn’t that helpful…I have discovered a solution hopefully it will work for you.

Continue reading 'Sun Java Error: 25099 Unzipping Core Files Failed – Fix discovered'»

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By admin, October 25, 2009 13:11

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Released to the public on October 22 Canonical’s latest and greatest Ubuntu yet “Karmic Koala 9.10“.  For many folks using a Linux distribution probably ranks up there with a visit to the dentist, but I have to say that as the kernel keeps improving in leaps and bounds the software wrapped around it can just work on the majority of hardware without issue.

Sure many folks may try it out and find out that it ‘does not work’ with their specific hardware, but compared with last years 8.10 the numbers are down with the sad exception of two particular vendors; ATI and Intel.  ATI recently dropped support for much of their older hardware, but then released a new series of drivers that do support.  Thankfully using the older drivers or using the open source communities versions can at least get them working, if you have problems with the more supported drivers.  Intel on the other hand has basically thrust it’s middle finger up at the linux community with a blatant refusal to provide open source to allow many distributions to be able to integrate support, so for many it means booting to a broken system, and downloading proprietary drivers and praying it works.  Obviously this isn’t the end of the world, but from my perspective a seriously ‘good’ reason to avoid using Intel hardware,  especially if you want to use wine to run Windows games or applications, you’d do so much better with non-Intel chipsets.  nVidia has the best support out of the box for most people not only linux users, but also windows users that it’s becoming a staple requirement.  Don’t get me wrong, Intel does provide drivers, but do not expect them to work directly from installation.  In some cases the generic drivers get installed and it works, in other cases you’re faced with non-working hardware and off to the various support forums seeking a solution.  Thankfully they are available.

In my situation I decided to get a new laptop and specifically bought a Compaq CQ60 which features NO Intel or ATI hardware, simply so I could avoid any hassles.  I’m pretty good at fixing these issues, but if I am spending money and the amount is equal, why buy something with hardware that will not work?    So without further adieu, I release my notes on installing Ubuntu 9.10 x64 on this laptop.

Continue reading 'Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” Release Candidate – Installation Notes'»

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By admin, October 15, 2009 07:05

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Well Apple has released another update but it appears that they didn’t bother to announce the update.  I was just pushed out and supposedly resolves a bunch of little issues, with things like ‘connectivity’ according to the notes I read.  But the real news is the fact that new iPhone 3GS shipping as we speak to a vendor near you will be using the new Bootrom, the iBoot 359.3.2 which protects the iPhone from jailbreaking using the 24kpwn exploit.

The iPhone Dev-Team is currently working on a possible solution, but are making several suggestions to anyone thinking of getting a new 3GS and what to do to prepare for any chance of jailbreaking it.  I’d like to say I didn’t see this coming but honestly I’m surprised it took this long.  How long it lasts?  Well, stay tuned.

For the rest of the public, PwanageTool 3.1.4 has been released and works with the new update.  Feel free to comment about how you feel about jailbreaking, and this development and whether this will sway your decision to purchase an iPhone.