Archive for the ‘Ubuntu’ Category
Nice post on Twittering on Ubuntu
Some people missed already important clients but I like the overview of all possible twitterclients for Ubuntu. I use Tweetdeck myself which I like but you need Adobe Air for that, so a native one might be nicer. The post is here.
Information activism
Off to India, looking really forward for two weeks meeting friends, making friends and have a lot of interesting talks in and around Bangalore. For more information check: http://www.informationactivism.org/
Google earth working again
It took me some time to get it working again, I installed google earth 5, http://earth.google.com/, but the same thing happened, no earth to be found, as root I got an error and that brought me here. So a simple: sudo mv libcrypto.so.0.9.8 libcrypto.so.0.9.8.old ln -s /usr/lib/libcrypto.so libcrypto.so.0.9.8 did the job.
My desk
Always nice to look at black and white, so why do we need Gui's anyway, it all comes done to text. Left is my laptop and right my desktop, running Ubuntu Intrepid with 2.6.27-10-generic kernel and on the Desktop some virtual machines for testing Jaunty, Debian Lenny and rarely Vista (if I have to make a flash thing). It is a Quad core so it ...
Sshfs
I used to work with Quanta on my Ubuntu machine, but Intrepid does not have kio slaves so for sftp which is necessary, it did not work anymore. After doing some reading I still use Quanta but I use it in combination with Sshfs: SSH is a secure protocol for communicating between machines. Sshfs is a tool that uses ssh to enable mounting of a ...
