Month: April 2007
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Epiphany kicks ass, but…
The default browser for Gnome, Epiphany, is a really good web browser. It’s more lightweight than Firefox and it integrates much better in to the Gnome desktop. It has a lot of useful extensions such as a very good Adblock, but my gripe is not being able to use my favorite FF extensions such as…
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Feisty upgrade
I upgraded my fiancée’s laptop a couple of days ago from Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) to 7.04 (Feisty Fawn). At first, update-manager didn’t offer the upgrade at all, and I had to delete the .update-manager -folder for it to work. Apparently this might be intentional, since quite a few people have had trouble with the…
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Gun happy
From raincoaster’s blog, an example of the sickness of American gun laws: You can’t buy certain kinds of music in WalMart, but you can buy guns. A good read.
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Get your feisty now!
I’m currently downloading the xubuntu flavour of Feisty Fawn for our old coffee room computer.
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Progress bars
Progress bars rarely work. A bar displaying a percentage of completed tasks gives the user an often false idea of how much time is left. Unfortunately, as is pointed out in the comments of silentk’s blog post on the subject, the percentage of tasks completed does not tell how processor-intensive the remainder of the tasks…
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Google Maps for mobiles – very nice!
At Google they seem to know how to make good mobile applications. After getting a hint from a friend via email, I installed Google’s latest mobile map software on my Nokia 6233 phone. Initially I ran into some trouble — for some strange reason the UI was all in German! Perhaps they thought that wouldn’t…
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Funny “I’m a Mac / I’m a PC” spoof videos
If you’ve seen Apple’s I’m a Mac / I’m a PC -videos, you might find these amusing. Looks like Novell is behind some of them.
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Compiz goodness
I’m really pleasantly suprised how well the desktop effects in Ubuntu Feisty work. They’re supposedly still pretty experimental, but the default compiz effects run just fine on my 4-year-old HP laptop with Mobile Radeon 9000 w/32 MB VRAM. And I’m using the open source ‘radeon’ driver. Obviously I’d get seriously better performance on a more…
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Forking out
In the last two years, I’ve been writing in both English and Finnish on my personal website, Hopeapuu. The vast majority of posts have been in Finnish, however, and most of them not tech-related. Lately I’ve been writing a lot about Ubuntu and usability related stuff, and decided it was time to start a separate…
Daniel Koskinen 