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I have another issue in Ubuntu that has been driving me batty: updated DNS servers. When I set up a vpn connection using Network Manager, I can connect to the vpn tunnel, but the DNS settings are not updated. This means that pretty much nothing can be done. I don’t go around remembering IP addresses [...]

I’ve been struggling for a while with an issue in XFCE (my favorite desktop environment). If I right-clicked on a blank spot on my desktop (and my desktop is always blank: I don’t do icons/shortcuts on my desktop), xfdesktop would crash. No errors, no information, just a core. I finally had time to search for [...]

I am just starting to get into Twitter. I’m still not 100% certain that I can get any use out of Twitter, but it is fun to play with. Theoretically, anyone who knows me can get updates from me if they Follow me. In reality, I don’t update Twitter very often, so no one can [...]

I tend to be a little cynical about list articles. Most are just trolling for links to try to drive ad clicks. And I am pretty certain that this article at Linux on Desktop is doing just that. However, the list given is actually pretty cool. There’s a lot of games in the list that [...]

I finally found some time to play with a few different Linux distros. I had mentioned here that I tried Sabayon Linux, which looks absolutely beautiful, and was kinda fun. But Gentoo is so far out of my comfort zone that I decided Sabayon wasn’t worth the time that it would take to re-learn things.
I’m [...]

So those of you who have read this blog for a while know that I use Amarok exclusively. With a music library as large as mine (17,000+ tracks), one needs to choose one library management system and stick with it. In my opinion, anyway. A library this big requires a good rating system (it is [...]

It occurred to me that, as cool as Compiz Fusion is on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy), I almost never get to take advantage of that anymore. I do most of my computing from my laptop, and connect to my Ubuntu machine via FreeNX. Over a 54mb/s wireless connection using a standard mix of applications, FreeNX provides [...]

Well, it took a while, but Google has finally released their desktop search program Google Desktop for Linux. While this sounds like great news, I get the feeling that Google might be in the wrong market with this product. Don’t get me wrong: I love that Google is no longer ignoring Linux. I love [...]

via DesktopLinux.com, Dell is apparently going to offer Ubuntu on a couple of new systems:
Dell isn’t resting on its recent consumer Linux PC laurels. The computing giant has added a new laptop — the Inspiron 1420 Notebook — to its Ubuntu Linux 7.04 offering. It is also replacing the Dimension E520 desktop with the [...]

It took friggin’ forever, but Amarok is finally able to transfer album artwork to my beloved iPod Nano! Supposedly, album art support has been in Amarok for a while, but it didn’t work because Amarok couldn’t correctly set the iPod model string.
Well, fortunately, Amarok 1.4.6 has been released. And even more fortunately, it is already [...]