Month: June 2006

Ubuntu must be getting really popular…

I know that Ubuntu must really be getting popular, because now it is starting to have detractors that are foaming at the mouth bashing it and Mark Shuttleworth and creating lots of interesting conspiracy theories. I reckon it's a...

General

Holy crap it’s hot

I'm mellllllllllting........ I am so going to enjoy the air conditioning in our new place...

LinuxUbuntu

Getting the Windows key to work in GNOME/Ubuntu

After seeing Nick Thomas's post, I thought it might be useful to actually do something with the Windows key on my keyboard in GNOME in Ubuntu. Here's how I got it to work: First, I had to go the Keyboard Preferences Panel, click...

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AOL Cancellation

This is unreal. I'm sure we've all customer service horror stories, but this is one is really bad. AOL Cancellation

LinuxUbuntu

When you get sick of Solitaire…

A free multi-player 3D Wolfenstein game that you can run on Linux, including Ubuntu. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnemyTerritory

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Washer and dryer

Shopping for a washer and dryer turned out to be harder than we thought. We went to Sears, with our Consumer Reports in hand, thinking that we'd look at all the CR-recommended picks and then choose the one with the best features...

MusicWindows

Making music with SNDREC32.EXE

Check out some pretty impressive techno-style tunes done with only the Windows sound recorder app (SNDREC32.EXE). See, GarageBand isn't needed after all! :-)