After my many, not so positive, reviews you might be surprised to learn that I’m actually using it at work now. Last week, a recent Mac convert dumped his ‘old’ laptop on my desk which happened to be a Lenovo T60 with a nice core duo processor, ATI graphics and 2 GB of memory. One [...]
Also tagged linuxYou might have read my previous reviews of Ubuntu which were not very flattering. Basically they apply nearly in full to the latest edition. At least the “scanning the mirrors” issue was fixed. It times out and the installer continues, unlike with previous editions. However, the network driver for my SIS chipset is still broken. [...]
Also tagged linux, reviewsThere is a nice article on Ars discussing Microsoft’s business practices regarding windows and how they appear to be not quite working lately. It used to be that your PC came with windows whereas nowadays you have to select from a around five different versions and Microsoft is rumored to go to an even more [...]
Also tagged apple, beer, google, microsoft, nokia, Software in General, windowsBelow is a position paper I submitted to the upcoming Dagstuhl seminar I am attending. It’s not peer reviewed and it is not clear at this point if there will be any proceedings. So, as an experiment, I will just put the full text in a blog post as well as the pdf you can [...]
Also tagged Academic, eclipse, java, linux, nokia, smart space, Software EngineeringIf you’ve been following my ubuntu rants (one, two, three + latest comment), you’ll know that so far the experience has been not as FUCKING advertised (excuse the explicitive). Well, here’s another rant:
After tracking down the kernel driver issue (mind you all my notes on installer usability still apply) that prevented my network from working, [...]
I’ve given up on feisty. I’ve blogged several times now about my failure to install it properly. Today I gave it another try and partially succeeded before failing again.
I read somewhere that you can bypass the scanning the mirrors problem by disconnecting the network cable. You see, running ifdown eth0 is not good enough because [...]
I tried (again) to install ubuntu and ran into a critical bug that would have left my system unbootable if it weren’t for the fact that I know how to undo the damage the installer does. Since this will no doubt piss off the average linux fanboy, let me elaborate.
I ran into the “scanning the [...]
Also tagged google, linux, reviewsCurrently ubuntu is my favourite linux distro. I don’t use it but do install it and other distros from time to time to see where linux is going. I’ve been doing this a couple of times per year since about 1995 when I was biking home from university with 30 or so slackware floppy disks [...]
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Windows based installer - testers and developers wanted - Ubuntu Forums
interesting, I’ll probably give this a try when it is done
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One of the new google services is http://www.google.com/analytics/. Just by adding a bit of simple java script to your site, it starts tracking all sorts of statistics. I requested an invitation a few months ago and received my code a few days ago. I guess they’re encountering some startup problems and are also experiencing some [...]
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