I’m eagerly awaiting my Ubuntu Feisty Fawn CD in the mail already. Just ordered from the wonderful ShipIt, which sends them out for free….gotta love it.
I also have my home directory on a separate partition for easy future re-installations or upgrades like the one I’m about to do. (yes!!!! no need to worry about […]

      in Ubuntu Dapper using Conky, my new favorite Ubuntu app. Along with todo.txt and remind, it has successfully allowed me to scrap Rainlendar2 and its non-existent r2skin skins (see here) for a much more customizable and robust system of organizing my life. Below is a snapshot of my desktop with computer info […]

I thought it was built-in only for Evolution, you know, that mini-calendar that opens up when you click on the time/date in Gnome’s panel. Well, it is actually possible to have it open (read only, though) another calendar, as long as it’s web-based. [note: there are some other possibilities, but I don’t understand […]

No need for an extra program! (but if you really want a full-fledged program, try gFTP)
For small ftp needs, you can just open your Nautilus (regular file browser, under Apps –> Accessories), and follow this simple guide from about.com:
In the Location Bar, enter the following:
For SSH, use: ssh://username@ssh.server.com
For FTP, use: […]

I tried to do this myself, but found I was much better off following this guide here. Make sure you don’t do what I did - fiddle around with Tbird before following his outline — because you’ll have to uninstall / reinstall everything again.
But this brings me right back to my earlier issue - […]

To me it seems that some of Ubuntu Dapper’s default programs are not the best, and there are other simple things completely missing which need to be brought up to a more comfortable user-friendly standard.
There are various ways of downloading new applications–a very clean & simple guide can be found here. Basically, you have […]

This was not hard to do, and I’d recommend it to anyone. Kubuntu offers the KDE interface, while Ubuntu has the Gnome one. Most important here, is what’s your preference. A decent breakdown of the differences between the two can be found here. But you’d probably have to try each one […]

My story of trying out Ubuntu Dapper, in my own words.
Like I mentioned earlier, I have a Dell Inspiron 600m laptop with (now)1gb RAM and about 33gb hard drive. I decided to roll-back my entire Windows XP Pro to it’s first configuration (as it was when it was shipped to me), of course after […]

I have Windows XP Pro with all the updates (SP2 or whatever) on a Dell Inspiron 600m, only a year and a half old. A couple weeks ago, I upgraded my RAM from 512mb to 1gb and added a bunch of lightweight programs (while uninstalling bulky counterparts). Suddenly Firefox or some other program […]