I’ll be heading down to Portland tomorrow afternoon for Ubuntu Live! and OSCON. I’m really looking forward to meeting up with Chris and Steve, both of whom I haven’t seen in over a year.
Hacking BoF
I’ve organized a “hacking session” BoF at Ubuntu Live, anyone interested in improving Ubuntu and GNOME is invited to attend.
Here’s the [...]
January 24, 2006 – 8:30 pm
I was tired of the jabber.org server going down every 20 minutes so I decided I needed to switch to a new jabber server.
Rather than just going with my google account like a lot of people have been doing lately, I figured that since I was going through the trouble of switching IDs anyway, I [...]
December 29, 2005 – 1:49 pm
Having trouble playing DVDs, MP3s, DiVX, AAC/MP4, XViD or WMV audio/video files on your Ubuntu Breezy system? Since these fomats are all proprietary, the companies that invented them require that developers purchase a (very expensive) license to legally decode (play back) files in these formats (with the exception of XViD which has had a completely [...]
November 24, 2005 – 12:23 pm
The wiki page describing how to install the accelerated nvidia drivers on the Ubuntu Linux wiki was very poorly written and basically just completly wrong. I spent a little bit of time cleaning it up, please let me know if you have any comments.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia
Obviously this whole process is much much more complicated than it [...]
November 23, 2005 – 7:02 pm
Don’t have any big thanksgiving plans? Or, think you are going to need something calm and relaxing to do after eating a little bit more than you think you should have? Come join us on #ubuntu-bugzilla (freenode) for Ubuntu Bug Day 2005!
From The Fridge:
Daniel Holbach sent out a reminder that this Thursday, November 24nd is [...]
November 16, 2005 – 3:40 pm
This was posted to the mailing list yesterday, nobody else blogged it so I figured I might as well:
We have also released an unstable version of gtk+ 2.8 bindings for
people who want to start experimenting with the cairo API. This release
is not for the faint of heart, and comes with no API stability guarantee
for [...]
Last night I replaced Gentoo on my desktop with Ubuntu Hoary. This is something I should have done a *long* time ago. Everything .. just works. I still can’t get over how fast apt is. I’ve been compiling everything for way too long.
I was thinking back about why I started using Gentoo. Before Gentoo [...]
October 18, 2004 – 12:05 am
Well it sure was easier to get this thing working on here than it was to get it working on clarkconnect:
1. Download & Install vtun
$ wget http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/non-US/pool/non-US/main/v/vtun/vtun_2.6-3_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg –install vtun_2.6-3_i386.deb
This will install all dependencies automatically.
More mirrors are at: http://packages.debian.org/testing/non-US/vtun
2. Load the tun module
$ sudo modprobe tun
3. Add tun to /etc/modules so it will be [...]