Posts Tagged “Linux”
I was one of the lucky few to receive a 50GB upgrade from box.net, (or box.com where they now live, marketing fail?) when I installed their Android app. I don’t have a use for that much storage on my phone but on my desktop machines? Oh yes! This forum post describes in detail how to [...]
One of the most annoying aspects of Windows after using Linux on the desktop for 10+ years was how the mouse wheel scrolled windows. On Linux desktops I could hover over a window and scroll it without focusing. It was really useful when I had a browser window with instructions behind a terminal or just [...]
With this app you can install Ubuntu on your Android phone. It has to be rooted obviously and it’s definitely not this. It looks like this installs Ubuntu in the same way as in the video above. It’s an app that runs in the background and you use a VNC client to connect to it. [...]
You realise how spoiled you are by the ease at which software can be installed in Linux only when you’ve done the same in Mac OS X or Windows. apt-get or aptitude will install a wide variety of software and in the case of aptitude will remove the software and all it’s dependencies afterwards. Yeah, [...]
If you want to load a large file in Vim you should disable the swap file to speed things up. It’s simple to do as well: Vim -n file.txt If a file is over 4096K or so and I have enough system RAM (not usually a problem) I’ll do it this way as it avoids [...]
I’m still using Ubuntu’s Unity desktop, which is saying a lot as I switched back to Gnome within a week or so of the previous release of Ubuntu. One of the remaining bugbears I had with Unity was the window or task switcher. It was impossible to switch between Chrome browser windows. I had to [...]
Have you recently installed Ubunty 11.10 and are you marvelling at the Unity Desktop? Not many are. Marvelling at the desktop that is, but it’s growing on me. I said that last time too so we’ll see how it goes. Anyway, the point of this little rant is to tell you to avoid or be [...]
The Android Wikipedia page is quite a read. I’m particularly taken with the research into how “open” it is (not really, compared to other projects) as I’ve never seen a commit log or discussion of patches for it. Moreover, our findings suggest that Android would be successful regardless of whether it is an open source [...]
Today is the big day. A new release of Ubuntu Linux is out. Version 11.04 or “Natty Narwhal” is the first to ship with the Unity desktop and I’m very impressed! If you haven’t seen it yet, check out the Ubuntu website or this handy guide. I like: The auto hiding sidebar of icons. When [...]
