What would I like to see from Ubuntu. Well 2 things; Read the rest of this entry »
What do I want from Ubuntu?
November 3rd, 2009What’s in an OS
October 29th, 2009The imminent release of Ubuntu 9.10 and the release last week of Windows 7 has prompted me to consider what I actually want from an Operating System. Rory Cellan-Jones (BBC technology Correspondent) produced a storm of response to his off handish dismissal of Ubuntu. In a similar vein the Deputy Editor of PC Pro did much the same in the last issue of PCPro – his main complaint the ‘clippy’ in Open Office for goodness sake. Read the rest of this entry »
Wordpress Maintenance
October 20th, 2009Recently I upgraded my Worpress installation to the latest release from Fantastico within cPanel on my hosting service. Upgrade worked fine but there was an error when posting new posts because of one of my plugins Role-Scoper. Tried to upgrade the plugin but the FTP kept knocking me back. Solution was to use localhost as the domain not the ftp.<domain> and the Plugin was installed.
Now to see if it worked! 
Yes it did <VBG>
Three Mobile Faster Than Home Broadband
October 20th, 2009Sad really, the download speed I can get from my Three mobile is faster than I get on my fixed line broadband. Ho Hum.
Clean up Grub and default boot after Ubuntu Upgrade
September 27th, 2009A bug bear of mine is that when you update or upgrade Ubuntu, it leaves all sorts of junk in the Grub menu and screws the default setting.
The solution is easy, boot into Ubuntu, open the menu.lst (sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst), find “#howmany=all” and change it to “#howmany=1?. Then run “sudo update-grub” to update changes. Next time, only newest kernel lines will be shown. This works even if you have other OSes installed as it leaves them alone.