Category: Technology

  • 8.04 – Just Around The Corner

    Hardy Heron is about to land but what should we expect from this new Long Term Support (LTS) version? Well the following link should hopefully be a good start: Introduction to Hardy Heron So for me the best aspects will be finally having Evolution and Google Calendar sync ability. Since about November I have relied…

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  • Evolving Ubuntu, The Intrepid Ibex

    I have only just heard…Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) is not here in its final release version yet but the next version has been announced: Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex As you can guess, it will be released in October 2008 (hence 8.10)…or I should say it is planned to be 8.10 as anything can happen…

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  • A Hardy Heron Is Inbound

    Ubuntu 8.04 ‘Hardy Heron’ is on the way! The clock is ticking and we will soon have the latest and arguably best operating system available! It is only up to the user how it looks and feels. No ‘required’ upgrades of your hardware to run it. No strings unless you want them. No contracts. No…

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  • Dead Dragons & Broken Monkies

    Much to my disappointment my experience of Kubuntu was sort lived and rather painful. Everything had gone very well up until the updates had finished downloading. After restarting I could no longer connect to the net with my USB modem no matter what I tried. After deciding to go back to Ubuntu I made a…

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  • Chasing The Dragon

    In this case the dragon being the mascot of KDE (the K Desktop Enviroment). Or the gears behind Kubuntu. One of the official Ubuntu distributions. Or as Kubuntu better explains “Kubuntu is one the variants available from the Ubuntu project. Our Kubuntu CDs are made up of Ubuntu’s base plus KDE. You can get exactly…

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  • Sony Ericsson W810i & Ubuntu

    Straight off, no the Sony Ericsson W810i will not play .ogg music files. If it was a symbian phone then it would be possible with a quick download of an application. So woe was I when I began the process of converting my music library to mp3 format. I know, feel dirty for doing it,…

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  • Falling Foul of the Monkey

    It is a about time I come clean and share my experience with Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). As you will have guessed from the tone of my previous posts I have been very impressed with the Ubuntu OS since moving over (completely) a few months ago. So it was with great excitement that I began…

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