Posts tagged Ubuntu

F-Spot failing to upload to Flickr

Feb 19th

Posted by Simon Scullion in Photography

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Part of my excuse for being so far behind uploading to my Flickr-stream is that F-Spot, the program I’m using on Ubuntu to manages my photo collection, had been failing to upload.
Basically it was never completing the upload, no time-out, no error, nothing.
A LOT of digging around out there via google eventually landed me on [...]

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Update Manager hangs in Ubuntu 8.04 (and how to fix it)

Jun 10th

Posted by Simon Scullion in Ubuntu

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Since I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04, I had noticed that Update Manager was hanging, but not bothered to look into fixing it.
Tonight I did, and a quick search on google lead me to this post on Joe Wein’s blog with a clear explanation on how to solve the issue:
Last month I upgraded my notebook from [...]

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IBM warming to Ubuntu?

Oct 22nd

Posted by Simon Scullion in Lotus

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Tell me its true!
Glen on his blog lets on:
So it was a big (and welcome) surprise to find not one but two groups within the company putting together distributions of the IBM desktop products for Ubuntu.
This was also picked up by Julian over at nsftools:
Ooo, that sounds tasty. A package of IBM products specifically for [...]

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10 Rocking Features in 10 Days – Countdown to Ubuntu 7.10

Oct 9th

Posted by Simon Scullion in Linux

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As we close in on the release of Ubuntu 7.10, codenamed Gutsy Gibbon during the development cycle, we thought we would tell you a little bit about some of the new features and improvements that make the release exciting. So over the next ten days, we will talk about one rocking feature each day until [...]

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Ubuntu 7.10 is coming…

Oct 3rd

Posted by Simon Scullion in Linux

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James posted on this yesterday.
Today I found this:

Cool huh! Added to the sidebar!
Can’t wait for the release, will be upgrading and looking forward to the Compiz Fusion magic!

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Linux elegance and aesthetics

Aug 8th

Posted by Simon Scullion in Linux

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In terms of elegance and aesthetics, Microsoft and Apple are many years ahead of Linux.
451 Group analyst Raven Zachary
Ignoring Mac OSX for now, I’m not sure what this is being based upon. I’ve been using Ubuntu since 5.04, and in its current form I’d say it is every bit as elegant and aesthetic as [...]

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