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 sure sign of popularity when you are on the receiving end of the sort of venom that is usually reserved for Microsoft and Bill Gates.
I’m mellllllllllting……..
I am so going to enjoy the air conditioning in our new place…
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 on the Layout Options tab, expand Alt/Win key behavior, and select “Super is mapped to the Win-keys (default)”
Then in the Keyboard Shortcuts Panel, I could select “Show the panel run application dialog” and press Windows+R.
I also tried to map Calculator to Windows+C, but for some reason it doesn’t seem to work. Any ideas?
Steve Yegge had the interesting idea of using the Windows key to have a slew of available key bindings for Emacs, but I haven’t tried this yet.
This is unreal. I’m sure we’ve all customer service horror stories, but this is one is really bad.
A free multi-player 3D Wolfenstein game that you can run on Linux, including Ubuntu.
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 and price for us.
Except that there were 40 or so models listed in Consumer Reports and 40 or so models at Sears and the overlap was 1. I thought washers and dryers were pretty straightforward, but there are endless variations. Aside from differences in size and color, front-loading vs. top-loaidng, etc., they largely just have different buzzwords – super agitator, ultra agitator, total care agitator, UltraQuiet, SuperQuiet, HyperQuiet, ReallyReallyQuiet. We finally settled on a reasonbly nice-looking and reasonabled priced Kenmore set. No cupholder though.
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! 🙂