Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon enters beta
Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) has entered beta. I have been running the Tribe 5 alpha version for a while, and I have been pretty happy with it.
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$7 CD sale
AnywhereCD is going out of buisness, and is selling CDs and 192kbs mp3s from those CDs for $7 , for a limited time.
It is unfortunate that this business model failed, as the customer paid full price for a CD, and then got a digital copy of that music file. (Which they will probably do as soon as they receive the CD.)
links for 2007-09-27
links for 2007-09-24
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Tips on getting Ubuntu to work on Dell XPS m1330 (in french)
Bleezer
I have been setting up my new laptop, this weekend, to run Vista and
Ubuntu. The hardest thing so far, is to find replacements for the
various Mac OS X applications that I used. For example, ecto is a great
blog editor for Mac OS X. There aren’t many blog editors available for
Linux.
apt does include some blog editors, but they are pretty limited in
their functionality. Scribefire
is also available, but if I wanted to write blog posts while in my
browser, I will just use my blogging software’s web interface.
The best application that I have found so far is Bleezer.
This is a cross-platform java application, that supports many blogging
services. Some of the other features it has are:
- Image uploading
- Multiple category support
- built-in tagging support
- spell checking
- integrated xmlrpc pinging
links for 2007-09-23
links for 2007-09-22
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Fix to make Google Desktop open Firefox by default on Windows Vista
links for 2007-09-20
INSTEON SwitchLinc Relay Countdown Timer
We are trying to conserve electricity where ever we can. We have switched all of our light bulbs, that aren’t contolled by dimmer, to compact florescent bulbs. We also turn off all unnecessary lights.
The lights that have been usually left on, are the one down to and in the garage. Since we normally keep the garage door closed, I tend to not notice that the light is on, so the light gets left on. The other problem is that when we are rushing out in the morning, the lights get left on
I wanted to find a solution that would automatically turn off these lights, but I also wanted the light switch to look like a regular light switch. Unfortunatelly, the motion sensing light switch that we used in our previous house wouldn’t work with florescent light bulbs. Also, many of the timer light switches aren’t as easy to use as regular switches.
Soundbadge
Here is my Soundbadge.
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