Well, the Feisty Fawn update was a success. I managed not to lose any data (so far) and the functionality of my computer is almost back to normal. I’m still tying up some loose ends as far as getting all my software reinstalled. Here is a screenshot from within Feisty: I got the background and [...]
Don’t try to mess with me tomorrow, because I’ll be installing Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn on my computers. Hopefully there will be some torrents going and it won’t take me days just to download it. Feisty is the latest release of Ubuntu, a computer operating system. If you don’t know what that is, you can [...]
Here’s a small bash script that will allow you to unzip a directory full of zip files. Each file will be unzipped into a directory named for itself (e.g. the contents of foo.zip will be extracted to a directory called foo). To run the script, enter the directory where the zip files are stored and [...]
No, this is not the title for an upcoming Fox special, it’s a short article about RSS feeds and why you should use them. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and it really is just that, simple. An RSS feed automatically keeps track of updates to a web site and makes that information freely available [...]
There’s a great web app out there that I think everyone might find beneficial. It’s Google Calendar. If you’ve already got a Google account, I advise you to check it out immediately. If you don’t have a Google account, get one. Google Calendar has all of the typical features you’d expect in a calendar program [...]
I’m sure by now all you Firefox aficionados have heard of a little addon extension called Greasemonkey. I’ve also seen some frustration associated with the installation and use of Greasemonkey. Since I also shared this frustration, I decided to put together this little tutorial. Leave feedback in the comments section. Installation We’re assuming you have [...]
Here is an Ubuntu 6.10 Samba setup guide blatantly ripped from this blog. If you have more than one computer and a mixture of Linux and Windows, Samba is essential for sharing files and printers. Enjoy! Install samba sudo apt-get install samba smbfs Add a system user for samba System > Administration > Users and [...]
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 6.10, Edgy Eft. Overall, the differences were minor, but there were a few things that have caused me some major grief. There were also a couple of nice additions. Here’s my view. Things that were broke Splash screens – The splash screens at boot and shutdown have disappeared. Now there [...]
Here is a little bash script I wrote that takes your Firefox bookmarks and uploads them to your web space. Tools For this project you will be using the bash shell and various command line operations. And of course you will need Firefox! Bash is usually the default Linux shell. This will probably work with [...]