Due to a few requests from the original post , I decided to look into why people are having trouble with installing ZumoDrive in Ubuntu 11.04. While I don’t use this program anymore, I thought that seeing people were still visiting this site and take the time to comment and ask a question, I would [...]
Lately, there have been more and more closed-source programs that have been available for Linux. Many of these provide pre-compiled binary packages for several distributions. In most cases, this is great. ZumoDrive, for example, provides download links for “Ubuntu 8 or later” which works up to version 9.10. The problem with these pre-compiled packages, though, [...]
During a recent upgrade of my Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx install, I noticed that my Volume Control and Mail icon had disappeared. I’m not sure exactly what had caused it just randomly disappear, however, its quite easy to get back. In recent versions of Ubuntu, these icons are all now incorporated into the one applet [...]
In the coming few days, I will be going through the process of setting up a HTPC in my living room using the Zotac Mag HD mini-pc. So, I have been spending a bit of time researching some of the things I wanted to do with it. I had previously just had a laptop connected [...]
I’ve never understood the purpose of these shutdown timers which you also find on Apple’s Mac OS X systems. I guess the general point is to give you time to complete what your doing before the system restarts. But, that begs the question, why did ask for a shutdown if you weren’t ready? Its understandable [...]
