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As you probably know there is a trojan running around that is installed via screen-saver via a .deb install. More here and here. The safest way to install anything on your machine is via the Official Repositories using apt-get, Synaptic or Ubuntu Software Centre. If you do need to install anything that is not in […]
You do not know what SUDO is .. then you must be a Windows fanboy. If you use Linux and/or Macs, you will use it on a daily basis. It is that little command that is in almost every distribution of Linux and also in Mac OSx that elevates your privileges to root for a […]
So Phython, C and C++ are not good enough for Google anymore. And it seems it is all about concurrency, speed and getting things done. It’s called GO … The company says that Go is experimental, and that it combines the performance and security benefits associated with using a compiled language like C++ with the […]
From my earlier post you will know the problems that Network Manager has with DSL connections. The latest release (2 November) from Network Manager Daily Build PPA solve some of the problems but not all. Solved: Non system wide connections now work again. Not Solved: System wide connection still does not connect The “inefficient privileges” […]
Just upgraded from Jaunty to Karmic on my Desktop and everything went fairly smoothly. One major issue is that DSL Connections with Network Manager does not work. This worked fine in Jaunty. I use a couple of different DSL accounts and switch between them as I need with Network Manager .. that was in Jaunty. […]
So what the heck am I talking about. Since this is suppose to be a technical blog it can only be about Ubuntu and in this case upgrading to Karmic Koala ala Ubuntu 9.10. The first that was running Karmic is my Compaq Laptop and that has been on the Karmic road since Alpha 6 […]
I have been running Ubuntu on multiple machines since around the 7 release and yesterday Karmic Koala officially became Ubuntu 9.10. I am already running it on one of my laptops and I must say, I am impressed with this release. In my opinion this is the best Ubuntu release by far. Congrats to the […]
On some network connections (particularly my corporate network), I had this issue when APT-GET was updating the repositories or downloading packages that it just would stand still for a minute or so and continue then. This would happen after every 100KB or so. I have found the following settings that improved the performance a lot […]
In the latest email newsletter from Paul Thurrott he had the following piece of wisdom: Oh Good, I Was Just Hoping for Another Webmail SolutionIBM continued its long slide into irrelevancy this week by releasing yet another corporate email solution that no one was asking for. Actually, it’s more of a competitor for Google Apps, […]