Ever since I’ve been using two monitors at work I’ve wanted to setup two monitors at home but finances are tight and I just can’t afford another flat screen. But this weekend I did dust off my daughters old 17″ CRT and tried to get it working with my Dell widescreen. I knew the latest [...]
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I know what I’m doing tonight! I’ve been a long time Gnome fan but KDE has always intrigued me. When I did my latest Ubuntu update I was going to switch but then I found out v4 was just around the corner so decided to wait. Today they officially released KDE4 and it looks good. [...]
I’m into application launchers. At work (on Windows) I use Find And Run Robot and have gotten really used to launching applications (and a lot of other neat functionality) with the keyboard. I’ve been missing the same thing on Gnome at home but tonight stumbled upon Gnome Do it’s still fairly immature but so far [...]
Ubuntu 7.10 is available today. I’ve been running the betas for a few weeks now with just a few issues but I update frequently and things have been really smooth lately. If you haven’t tried Ubuntu yet give it a shot! I’ve been using Ubuntu now for more than a year now and could never [...]
Tonight I updated my Ubuntu install to the latest Gutsy beta (7.10). So far so good. This is the first upgrade I’ve done where it correctly set my widescreen monitor resolution so that was nice (no manually editing config files!). I’ve also enabled the new flashy Compiz window effects but am not that impressed. And [...]