Category: Tech
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Blogging with Octopress
I’ve switched to using Octopress rather than WordPress to run my blog. I have ran wordpress since 2003, before it was forked from B2 cafelog, I’ve decided to switch as I’m currently patching security problems in my blog software more often than writing blog posts, this is probably more indicative of my blog tempo rather than anything…
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So long and thanks for all the fish
I’ve been an Ubuntu member since 2006 and was actively involved for a year before that. In years gone by I’ve enjoyed spending time with the bugsquad, the doc team, #ubuntu support and a couple of small packaging fixes. Despite my best intentions, I’ve not managed to stay involved since my last renewal, my interests…
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Kindle
It was my birthday on Monday, and on Friday I finally received my present, Sara, Lemon and my parents had bought me, a Kindle 3G. I’ve been using it for a few hours (finished reading Bram Stokers’ Dracula this morning) and I’m pretty impressed. I’ve not had or even played with an ebook reader before.…
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Then and now
Following the meme currently running on Planet Ubuntu here is one of my first linux desktops (the oldest screenshot I have). The install was set-up in 2002 I think. Mandrake 8.2 using the fluxbox window manager. It didn’t get used an awful lot as I could never get my ISDN modem working. Today I run a close…
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First impressions of gnome-shell
GNOME Shell is the proposed interface for Gnome 3, it replaces the window manager, the panels at the top and bottom of the screen and everything that sits on them. It’s in the repositories for Karmic, install gnome-shell and then run gnome-shell –replace to give it a try. You should note that it’s still under heavy development and…
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Ubuntu One
The fact of the matter is there are proprietary drives in Ubuntu and you choose whether to use them or not, why should this service be any different? Dave I think the difference is that this is proprietary software (or at least the back end is) that is branded as Ubuntu. Personally I don’t have…
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Gwibber
I’m using gwibber for keeping up with identi.ca and twitter. I mainly use an eeepc while at home, so to get a couple more dents on screen I’ve recently been using the defaultsmall theme. This theme isn’t quite as nice to my eyes as the default theme though, it makes the background darker for one thing. I’ve…
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Configuring enigmail
Enigmail is an extension to Mozilla Thunderbird and Seamonkey to integrate the OpenPGP standard (specifically GPG) with the MUA. After enigmail has been configured for a while and you then wish to go back and change a setting it can be quite confusing as to where to do it. The most obvious place to start…
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Freelink
I spent Monday afternoon flashing my Linkstation twice. I flashed it with Freelink – a firmware containing a basic Debian installation. This means that instead of having a Buffalo custom variation of Linux, I have Debian and all of the packages that that includes. I promptly managed to mess up the network configuration file and so once I rebooted the Linkstation,…
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My recent free software involvement
I should really write in this thing more, spending time on my final year project, and free software things takes up most of my time though. Recently I’ve been toying with a Gnome applet for the Twitter API – that notifies you when your friends twitter. I’m struggling to get it to work with the gnome-panel, it…
Dean Sas 