http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,2000498448b,00.htm J.A. Watson's Blog - Jamie's Random Musings - Latest blog feeds at ZDNet UK en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:42:19 +0000 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:42:19 +0000 20 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (J) Fedora 12 (Constantine) this week, we have finally made it through. I have intentionally chosen what i...]]> zdnetuk/10014494 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014494o-2000498448b,00.htm Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:36:26 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (J) Linux.com a few days ago. The problem I was looking at was setting the default boot selection on Ubuntu 9.10, or more generally with GRUB 2. ...]]> zdnetuk/10014483 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014483o-2000498448b,00.htm Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:21:17 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (J) I've been trying out the new openSuSE 11.2 release for nearly a week now, loading it on everything I have. It's been a mixed bag of results, starting out very strong, and ending up with several significant disappointments. Here is a summary of the highs... zdnetuk/10014462 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014462o-2000498448b,00.htm Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:10:36 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (J) Sometime during the Ubuntu 9.04 release, Canonical added a 60-second delay when Reboot or Shutdown was selected. At that time it was at least possible to go to the "User Switcher Preferences" and disable the delay. Now, with the 9.10 release, that disab... zdnetuk/10014447 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014447o-2000498448b,00.htm Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:13:10 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (J) I know, I know... I'm late, Mandriva 2010 has been out for a week now, and openSuSE is due out already today. This is a crazy time of year, with all of these releases coming so close together, but I do the best that I can to keep up, even if it is a bit... zdnetuk/10014439 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014439o-2000498448b,00.htm Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:38:51 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (J) I don't write much about Skype any more, mostly because I find the entire company, its product and the situations surrounding it totally disgusting. However, a couple of things have come up which I just have to comment about. 1. The recent "settlement... zdnetuk/10014429 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014429o-2000498448b,00.htm Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:33:16 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (J) It's been about a week since the final release of Moblin 2.1 suddenly showed up on their web page. I've been distracted with Ubuntu Karmic and Mandriva 2010, though, and although I loaded it on the ASUS N10J, I haven't had time to really take much of a l... zdnetuk/10014425 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014425o-2000498448b,00.htm Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:48:52 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (J) In Part 1 of this series I looked at some general netbook concepts, and the "standard" Ubuntu distribution. Part 2 I looked at the Ubuntu Netbook Remix, which is probably the best known of the netbook-centric versions. Part 3 was devoted to Kubuntu Netb... zdnetuk/10014403 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014403o-2000498448b,00.htm Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:26:37 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (J) A long time ago at a Usenix conference (I think it was the one in Salt Lake City), there was a "quiz" passed around. I'm going to update one of the questions I remember from that, because it is absolutely perfect for what I just went through. Fill in ... zdnetuk/10014389 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014389o-2000498448b,00.htm Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:34:34 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (J) In Part 1 of this series, I looked at the "standard" Ubuntu distribution, and found that with some adjustments, it could be made into what I considered to be a fairly nicely usable netbook. In Part 2 I looked at the Karmic Netbook Remix release, and foun... zdnetuk/10014384 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014384o-2000498448b,00.htm Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:19:24 +0000