Category: Reviews & Opinions
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Auf Wiedersehen, MCN
I have been a weekly buyer of Motorcycle News (MCN) for about 12 years now, probably missing only 10 issues over that whole period. Two weeks ago they brought in a whole new look, basically trying to package a newspaper as a glossy magazine. It does not work. Its a pig’s ear of a job.…
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Precise Pangolin, Gnome Shell and Don’t Mention the War
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin is just a matter of weeks away with the launch date of April 26th synced on our various calendar applications, so as long as some nasty ‘show stopper’ does not bother our rugged pangolin we just have to concern ourselves with the upcoming release parties. I have been running Precise…
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Precise Pangolin, Beta Days Ahead
First, I do not recommend you try ANY of the following on any computer that you need to be able to use. This is still BETA software so unless you are not prepared for breakage then just sit back and enjoy my hapless attempts to avoid bricking my computer 😉 I have downloaded two copies…
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Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin Update
Since December I have been running the development cycle of the next Ubuntu release, 12.04 Precise Pangolin. And for the most part it has been trouble free, the only real issues I have with it are on a purely superficial level, such as the choice of Rhythmbox over Banshee and the not including of Tomboy…
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Ubuntu 12.04 – Precisely the Linux for Human Beings?
Right, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin ALPHA is installed, and things seem stable enough at this point in development. Installation could have gone smoother. I downloaded the torrent for the Alpha 1, created a startup USB, went to install and selected the ‘upgrade 11.10 to 12.04’ option to try and preserve as many installed applications as…
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Gnome Shell Running On A Netbook
I have enjoyed using the Gnome Shell interface instead of Unity over the last two weeks that I have decided to install on my Advent 4211 netbook. In the post were I described installing and tweaking Gnome Shell the focus was on average sized monitors but the default settings of Gnome Shell mean that a…
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Running Gnome Shell on Ubuntu 11.10
First I have to say that I am a fan of Unity, not when they first rolled it out on netbooks (crippling them performance wise) but on PC’s or laptops it made more sense. No it is not perfect, yet, but I do like the direction it is going and what could be achieved with…
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Rhythmbox Prevails over Banshee!? Because Ubuntu 12.04 Wants to Look 10 Years Younger
Rhythmbox Prevails over Banshee!? Because Ubuntu 12.04 Wants to Look 10 Years Younger It is looking more and more likely that 12.04 will ship with Rhythmbox instead of Banshee. Can not say that I am happy about that. Reinstalled Rhytmbox this week to check out how it has developed and nothing has changed. In fact,…
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Oneiric Ocelot – Ubuntu’s Field of Dreams
Having been running Ubuntu 11.10 ALPHA & now BETA on an Advent 4211 and it would seem the Alpha ran better, no more normal desktop, have to log into the 2D version since Beta. Also performance is very poor right now, everything is laggy or takes significant time to load. The performance of the Unity…
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Installing Ubuntu 11.04 on Packard Bell Imedia S1800
I have recently installed Ubuntu 11.04 onto a Packard Bell Imedia S1800 with a Pentium Dual-Core E5800 (@3.20 GHz), 3GB Ram, 1TB HDD and an AOC e2043Fs Series 20″ LED monitor. For the most part everything is running as expected with only one bug cropping up, which I will get to below, but for now…
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