Jolicloud and Netbooks
I finally got my invite to Jolicloud Tuesday and promptly installed it on a VM for some geeky fun.
I first heard about Jolicloud from Rick Turoczy, who wanted to put it on his new netbook. Jolicloud is a remixed Ubuntu distro, looks like Netbook Remix, that brings an iPhone-like O/S interface to your netbook.
I don’t have a [...]
My Jaunty Adventure
So, Canonical released the latest version of the Ubuntu distro recently, Jaunty Jackalope, version 9.04.
I played with Jaunty in a VM a bit when it was in alpha, and I didn’t notice many new features, compared to Intrepid, aside from the new login splash screen and the Growl-style notifications.
I waited a few days, then last [...]
More Ubuntu Adventures
I’ve been following a story that came out of WKOW 27 the ABC affiliate in Madison, WI.
The headline WKOW uses, “Woman blames Dell for missing online classes”, doesn’t accurately reflect the crux of the issue. Slashdot boiled it down as “Woman Claims Ubuntu Kept Her From Online Classes“, and story is called “Ubuntu Causes Girl [...]
Which Operating System Would You Have Your Child Use?
Herewith a post about parenting…
This morning’s NYTimes has an article about Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu. For those of you who follow Ubuntu and Shuttleworth, the article is nothing new… just talks about Shuttleworth’s desire to displace Microsoft in the OS war. However, it did get me thinking about my history with OSes. When I started [...]
What’s Your Next Project?
Initially, the title was “What’s Your Next Geeky Project?”, but I’m interested to know other projects too.
I’m a DIY guy. I like messing around with stuff, figuring out how to do things and learning new (ahem) skills. Most of my projects involve computers because that’s where most of my skills are. I tinker around the [...]
What Makes UI Good?
Thanks to a comment from Terry on my post about locking your smart phone, I’ve been digging around looking for ways to make my beloved iPhone more secure.
Surprisingly or not, Apple has made it maddeningly difficult to even the simplest precautions.
Terry’s comment, which I read a bit hastily, mentions changing the root password on your [...]
Measuring the Cost of a Computer
I was all ready to crank out a heavy work post when this item in my Reader caught my eye.
Should You Pay Twice as Much for a Mac?
I love this type of title because it captures attention by being potentially controversial, and of course, it references Apple. Good tech news writing always drives traffic through [...]
Friday Lulz
I read xkcd and actually get about 75% of the jokes, I think. Anyway, this one popped up in Reader this morning, and it made me laugh, especially in light of our recent discussions about O/S, a.k.a. the “which O/S would win in a fight” thread.
Enjoy, and read xkcd if you don’t already, and don’t [...]
OS X, Ubuntu and Other Fun Stuff… My Perspective
Instead of adding a comment to Jake’s post on his Ubuntu experience to-date, I thought I’d just blog my perspective.
Here’s my backstory with Apple, MSFT, Linux, and others:
Mid to late 80s: Timex Sinclair 1000… loved writing programs on cassette tapes! How many of you Web 2.0 kiddies can say that?
Early to mid 90s: had an [...]
OS X, Ubuntu and Other Fun Stuff
Comments have been awfully quiet lately. I’m guilty of talking too much about work-related stuff and not enough about iPhones and Twitter.
My bad. Let’s remedy that.
Rich asked me recently how my move to Ubuntu was going. It’s been almost a month, and he says he has a vested interest in keeping me happy with it. [...]
Taking the Plunge: Part 4
In case you haven’t had enough of my epic dumping of Windows for Ubuntu odyssey, here’s another installment. This is likely to be the last one, but no promises.
This is my fist blog post from Ubuntu, not a huge deal, but still.
I’m probably 75-80% of the way done, with a few holes yet to fill, [...]
Taking the Plunge: Part 3
I decided earlier in the week that the long Fourth of July would be a great time to reimage my work laptop from XP to Ubuntu.
A couple reasons for this: 1) I’m supposed to be off today, so I can muck around with my laptop without worrying about work stuff and 2) it’s a bit [...]
Taking the Plunge: Part 2
Over the weekend, I finally made the decision to reimage my laptop, which currently runs XP, to Ubuntu 8.04, fondly known as Hardy Heron.
Well, I dragged my feet, and the weekend ended; XP must not have got the memo because it’s being more temperamental than normal. It’s complaining about disk space on C; it’s killing [...]
Taking the Plunge
It’s ironic to me that D-Day for good old Windows XP is coming up on Monday, since for several months, I’ve been trying to motivate myself to dump it in favor of Ubuntu as the O/S on my work laptop.
Tracking Dan’s recent jump into the Mac pond chronicled over Twitter and in his blog has [...]
Virtual Adventures
As I teased yesterday, I’ve been mucking around with virtual machines to extend my ability to test Mix. Due to the varied nature of our users’ environments, I need to find ways to install more browsers, more versions on more operating systems.
Everyone knows reproducing an issue is really the best way to begin fixing it. [...]
