Install - full drive. First of all, I like my operating system fast. I don't not enble Visual Effects or run proprietory ATI driver on my T60 notebook. I like high resolution, so no need to adjust video settings on my notebook.
Setup network - wifi
Install updates. 367 updates at this point.
Reboot to new kernel...
Install usable applications you can't live without...
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nmap
sudo apt-get install bluefish
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
You will need these below if you want to build from source or build .deb packages...
sudo apt-get install build-essential cdbs fakeroot dh-make debhelper debconf libstdc++5 dkms linux-headers-$(uname -r)
note: that's all one line...
Furthermore, I have tried many themes to change the look of my desktop and found out that the default Ubuntu Human theme to be my preference. Sometimes it doesn't exactly match my background, but everything functions as it should. When (if ever) someone makes a better theme, I will try it. Else, it's my view that the original anything is usually the best. Many hours goes into creating distros and I let the developers (or should I say artist) decide such trivial stuff.
I will edit and add to this file as time goes by.
What brought me there today?
After installing a few applications not in the Ubuntu repositories, namely wicd, my gnome-system-tools was foobared. A friend of mine gave me a copy of Jaunty Jackalope and I was also eager to try it out so I wipped the drive and installed. A few system tool change and cosmetic changes along with the fact that it has no LTS or Long Term Support, after a day I reinstalled Hardy Heron.
To date, with perhaps the exception of an earlier version of Tubo Linux, I think Hardy is the best distro release ever!
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Monday, April 27, 2009
Firefox Addon: termBlaster
Categories
termBlaster adds the ability to perform searches from your right-click (or context) menu using one of 110+ websites that range from search engines to encyclopedias to translators. Website lists are in XML format and can be modified in your Bookmarks Organizer.
Categories
termBlaster adds the ability to perform searches from your right-click (or context) menu using one of 110+ websites that range from search engines to encyclopedias to translators. Website lists are in XML format and can be modified in your Bookmarks Organizer.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Moneydance for Linux
If you are looking for a replacement for Quicken, try Moneydance. Although not free software, this finance manager is actually faster than Quicken!
MONEYDANCE
MONEYDANCE
two cows? tucows? tuucows? 2 cows?
tucows has a nice new interface (or at least since I last visited).
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Brendan's On-Line Anagram Generator
Another cool online tool. Looking for a unique domain or nick name? Type in a name or phrase and get a list of words/phrases created with those letters.
Try It!
Try It!
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Linux vs. Windows
After using Windows Vista and installing all the equivalent programs I use in Linux, I found my 120 GB hard drive on my T60 notebook was reduced to 63 gigs:(
About Vista
Vista is not a bad or slow interface like some claim if you use the classic look and adjust your windows settings (visual affect to a minimum) for performance. In fact Vista performed as good as Linux in most cases with multiple programs running. However, it ate a lot of my 120 gig drive and leaves about only half of the space for user files and iso's! This is a major drawback to using Vista Wicd and I can understand why someone would want to keep XP instead of upgrading.
Linux Instead
Since my XP w/SP2 disk is currently MIA, I decided to entirely ditch Windows on my notebook. While I'm waiting on my Slackware DVD, I have installed and setup Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and removed network manager and installed Wicd for wifi since it has commandline support and shows all wifi connections (even one's not broadcasting). Wicd, excellent wifi connect tool and after restart has it's own gnome panel applet.
I got tired of the Mega Vista updates and Vista using half my hard drive! I hope they come out with a stripped down version of Windows 7 to say the least or I"m afraid Microsoft is going to have a very bad year.
Wicd is one of the best tools I've found for networking in Linux. If your distro doesn't have it, get it from the repository. Works with Fluxbox and other window managers and even from commandline.
About Vista
Vista is not a bad or slow interface like some claim if you use the classic look and adjust your windows settings (visual affect to a minimum) for performance. In fact Vista performed as good as Linux in most cases with multiple programs running. However, it ate a lot of my 120 gig drive and leaves about only half of the space for user files and iso's! This is a major drawback to using Vista Wicd and I can understand why someone would want to keep XP instead of upgrading.
Linux Instead
Since my XP w/SP2 disk is currently MIA, I decided to entirely ditch Windows on my notebook. While I'm waiting on my Slackware DVD, I have installed and setup Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and removed network manager and installed Wicd for wifi since it has commandline support and shows all wifi connections (even one's not broadcasting). Wicd, excellent wifi connect tool and after restart has it's own gnome panel applet.
I got tired of the Mega Vista updates and Vista using half my hard drive! I hope they come out with a stripped down version of Windows 7 to say the least or I"m afraid Microsoft is going to have a very bad year.
Wicd is one of the best tools I've found for networking in Linux. If your distro doesn't have it, get it from the repository. Works with Fluxbox and other window managers and even from commandline.
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