Here are a couple of methods to determine which version of Ubuntu you are running: The contents of file:///usr/share/ubuntu-artwork/home/index.html has the "Welcome to " information. In my case that is "Welcome to Xubuntu 7.04!". The version number equates to what...
Got a roof quote today. So the eventual plan will be a new Colorbond roof with Colorbond Facia covers. A Fiberglass Wool blanket is also planned to add a little more insulation.
The Age has an article debunking DVDs that purport to help your baby become a genius. Clever marketing is all I can say. The Sales and Marketing Professional asks "What is it most Parents feel guilty about not giving their Children enough of?" Time! So some clever...
I have been browsing the internet and looking at blogs, usually using StumbleUpon because my craving for spontaneity means that the "mouseclick gamble" it provides fulfills the desire to be entertained and suprised. Bloggers have a certain conceit that other people...
Fedora sevens xfce4 package is a steaming pile of incompleteness. Here are very rough steps to getting xfburn going. wget http://www.paldo.org/paldo/sources/libburn-1/libburn-0.3.2.tar.bz2 wget http://www.paldo.org/paldo/sources/libisofs-1/libisofs-0.2.4.tar.bz2 do...
I run xfce4 on Fedora 7. Where as xubuntu provides a complete "I can do anything GNOME|KDE can do" environment. Fedora 7's install appears to be a nod to marketing i.e. "Oh yes we have xfce4 aswell" Well it bites.... Although I love the redhat config tool structure...
Fresh installation of Ubunut 7.10 from disk. No updates. download and compile putty-0.60.tar.gz command ./configure error: C compiler cannot create executables fix: apt-get install libgtk1.2-dev apt-get install gcc apt-get install build-essential ./configure make -f...
Lastnight did an update to my computer to kernel 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 and rebooted. Following the reboot my desktop clock in both GNOME and XFCE4 seemed to get stuck and not proceed forward. If I issued the date command from a terminal the time seemed correct. The...
I just had an issue where I couldn't use the winecfg app to change my default audio driver. It seemed to be locked onto OSS and my system is ALSA. My setup is wine-0.9.41 and Wine Doors version 0.1 on Fedora 7. I tried using vi to change ~/.wine/user.reg...
Recently went to Tuggerah Westfields because they have a massive Borders book shop that has titles one would actually read. They also have a "Howards Storage World" shop (House hold clutter busters) which I forgot to go into to have a look but just went to their...