May 19th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, linux/unix, notes, technology
Something exciting may be going on. Jeff Bonwick, storage expert and leader of the ZFS team at Sun has posted pictures from a seemingly informal meeting with Linus Torvalds on his blog. Sr Program Manager at Sun, Jim Grisanzio also links to the pictures in a blog post of his own titled “ZFS Pics“.
Does this [...]
May 16th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in linux/unix, software, technology
After installing Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (Hardy Heron), I didn’t get any sound when I tried to play sound files in Amarok (the distribution’s own package of version 1.4.9.1), a music oriented audio player/music library for *nix.
I fixed this by changing opening Settings – Configure Amarok – Engine and changing the Xine engine’s (no other engine [...]
May 13th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in hardware, in English, linux/unix
The Lexmark E232 laser printer I need to use at the office works for me in Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (Hardy Heron) if added in the “System -> Administration -> Printing” as a “Generic PCL 5c Printer” using the “CUPS+Gutenprint v5.0.2 Simplified” CUPS driver.
In this particular setup, the printer is shared from its USB port using [...]
May 9th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, linux/unix, notes, software
EDIT: This post gets some traffic from Google users who probably are more interested in a later post on fixing a problem causing Ubuntu 8.04’s Amarok not to play any sound.
After upgrading to Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) I noticed that Amarok (Ubuntu package version 1.4.9.1-0ubuntu3), one of my preferred audio players/music libraries, didn’t [...]
May 8th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, linux/unix, notes, software
The GNOME desktop environment project is plagued by a design philosophy that apparently aims to make user interfaces suitable for lobotomy victims at the cost of removing features and options from the GUI. This has been discussed endlessly elsewhere.
Something probably related to this surfaced when I upgraded to Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron). A [...]
May 8th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, linux/unix, notes, software
Although the new Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS release is nice and polished, there are a few glitches in how the bundled GNOME environment allows the user to customize some behavior.
Settings for how the desktop environment should handle removable media are important for me as I loathe the idea of having to deal with any [...]
March 17th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, in Swedish, linux/unix, notes, politics, software, windows
(I hate Courier New)
For some time, I’ve used Dimitar Zhekov’s clean, fixed-width font Terminus for terminal-heavy situations in both GNU/Linux and Windows. I’m clueless in the area of typography, but Terminus looks oddly appealing when looking at e.g. code (which I don’t write myself), configuration and log files. I keep backup copies of a TTF [...]
March 17th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, linux/unix, notes, software, technology, web hosting
Late last month, the Debian GNU/Linux project announced that security patch support for the old stable release, 3.1 (codename Sarge), will end on the last day of March. Many people will be using servers, integrated and other special systems with Sarge for a long time to come, without applying any patches, and I’m afraid I’ll [...]
March 13th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, linux/unix, notes, windows
To cure my boredom, I’m posting an inconclusive fix to an issue (or feature?) I’ve experienced using the PuTTY terminal emulator/SSH client for Microsoft Windows. It’s worth mentioning that PuTTY Tray is the version I prefer – it’s patched to include something that detects URLs and makes them clickable links, a feature frivolously left out [...]
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