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Comment on Get a Dynamic Interplanetary Background with Xplanet by marvin nubwaxer

marvin nubwaxer — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:29:01 +0000

it’s called “earthview” for windows. i’ve used it for years.

Comment on 5 things to look forward to in Ubuntu 10.10 by John

John — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:46:01 +0000

I switched to Ubuntu 09.04 on my notebook and enjoyed everything except for the poor battery life. For me that was also the reason to revert to using Windows. Now Win 7 works very well and even increased the battery time from Vista.

Hope Ubuntu has a chance to improve on the battery life, as it is a very intuitive and nice system otherwise.

Comment on Configuring the Update Manager in Ubuntu Linux by Kayes

Kayes — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:41:53 +0000

use synaptic software manager on your linux and click whateva u want to uninstall.
the update manager just realises that they are there to be updated.:)

Comment on Howto Add Items to the Right-Click Menu in Nautilus by Parley Kennelly

Parley Kennelly — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:48:31 +0000

@David, Can you post the set up for printing *.pdf files? That is exactly what I was looking for when I found this page.

Thanks.

Comment on Why an Ubuntu Tablet Won’t Sell by truthman

truthman — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:55:08 +0000

Ubuntu is one of the easiest and more user friendly
linux distro .
It has thousand apps already.
I am pretty sure that it highly possible for canonical to
achieve a goal like that.
The important thing to happen is that tablet pc’s ( the new trend…) MUST be customizable at least as many laptops do
in terms of installing whatever operating system somebody wants with the freedom to modify it .
We (free people not slaves ) want the freedom to use our
machines with whatever OS we want as we already do with desktop PC.
If slaves have lost their mind and the want to commit a suicide,
sorry ,not only i don’t agree with that but I am also PRETTY SURE
I will fight against those “zombie” slaves…

(slaves = those who like way too much apple products..)

cheers

Comment on 5 things to look forward to in Ubuntu 10.10 by Baris Isik

Baris Isik — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:13:51 +0000

I really would love to see improvements on power management. The battery life used to be unquestionably longer in previous distributions. I understand that the newer versions are more CPU intense, but a laptop is almost no good without a good battery life (not talking about laptops with old batteries) regardless of its computing power or the OS stability.

Comment on Three Apps For Monitoring Performance In Linux by Jonathan DePrizio

Jonathan DePrizio — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:16:22 +0000

Mark, that tool looks really useful. Thanks for commenting, I’ll check it out!

Comment on Three Apps For Monitoring Performance In Linux by Mark Seger

Mark Seger — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:12:38 +0000

I guess we all have our biases and I have a very strong bias against point tools like these. They’re great for solving a specific problem but pretty useless if you have a misbehaving system and no clue where to look. Further, even if you do know where to look, looking at any one type of data in isolation usually doesn’t help track down the problem, it only shows you the behavior of a single component. Furthermore all the outputs are in a totally inconsistent format.

Enter collectl – it can report most of what many of these tools report but like sar it can run in the background at very low overheard. But unlike sar it can collect a whole lot more and let you look at it in multiple formats depending on where your investigation takes you. It can also produce output in a delimited format making it real easy to import into a spreadsheet or even pass to a tool like gnuplot.

Try it, you’ll like it.

-mark

Comment on 5 things to look forward to in Ubuntu 10.10 by steven

steven — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:55:19 +0000

You can install a version of chromium through aptitude that stays updated regularly without having to compile it. Works great for me. I still use Google Chrome a lot more, but there is a Chromium nightly project that works great.

Comment on 5 things to look forward to in Ubuntu 10.10 by steven

steven — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:44:57 +0000

You wouldn’t really be switching to Google. Its Chromium. Its the open source version of Chrome, so the only Google stuff is sync and the fact that Google put the project together.