This is really cool. This installs IE6 (or earlier versions if you want them) on Ubuntu. There are very few times these days when I need IE for some reason, but it still happens. Now I don’t need to reboot into XP (which I still need for work purposes) or power up VirtualBox for my …
Recently I came across Zoho. I have been a big fan of Google Docs for some time. Well not the documents exactly since they lose a lot of formatting from richer applications. But the spreadsheet program has been very useful. But for several reasons I want to move some of my computing away from Google. …
I added a new item to my list today, a movie creation tool. My son likes to grab photos, videos from our camera, and various sound files and compile them into his own home movies. He enjoyed using Windows Movie Maker for this. A cursory search in the Linux universe didn’t turn up anything. I …
I am slowly rebuilding my music collection with Amarok. Nice player, I love the artist info it shows from Wikipedia. At first I was confused that clicking on a song or playlist would queue the music as opposed to playing the music. Then I found right click + load and understood. Most players, okay Windows …
I have a first generation iPod Nano. Approximately 2 weeks after the warranty expired and literally hours before I boarded a plane to Europe the device stopped working. I looked all over the net for an explanation but at the end I was left with no choice but to send it in for repairs. My …
SOLVED! Okay, the adventure continues… no sound. After searching the Ubuntu Forums I have found plenty of people with sound issues. My sound card reports itself as SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio when running under XP. My system detects the sound card but simply makes no sound whatsoever. There are a variety of threads on this …
Issue 4 of the things I was missing was connecting to my network share to access my music. With some help from Mark via the comments, it is now working! The solution was a little trickier than I’d hope for. The basic idea is to mount the SMB share into the file system so apps …
Recently I posted about some things I am still missing in my switch to Linux. I have received some tips via email and some comments along the way. I will start numbering these issues (issue tracking if you will) so we can keep track of them. 0. iTunes 1. “./program.name” — Anand in a comment …
As I’ve mentioned before I am in the process of switching the PCs in my house over to Linux, specifically Ubuntu. Why? Well recently Brandon sent me a post of a fellow Microsoftie who was tired of it all. Of course he was only a six year veteran; let’s see how he feels when he’s …
http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003763.shtml Barack Obama is apparently asking that the upcoming presidential debates are released for general use. I like this. As someone who has moved over to Ubuntu in the home (still no decent iTunes solution!) I am becoming more of a believer in opening up stuff that should be opened. And certainly when people who …