Ubuntu Release Party Kampala
This year I did find the time to visit a Ubuntu release party. Unfortunately it did not work out the last times. I had time, so I took it and went 5 hours by bus to the capital city of Continue Reading …
Lucid with encrypted home
As my upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 ended with a kernel panic and I needed to have a running PC for work, I ran a new installation. Instead of the proposed partitions, I installed Lucid over the existing Ubuntu installation. For Continue Reading …
Gnome Global Menu
As Mark Shuttleworth announced on his Blog today, Gnome Global Menu shall be included in the Netbook version of Ubuntu 10.10. Global Menu puts the application menu bar int the upper panel. Picture taken from the Global Menu project page. Continue Reading …
Backup with rdiff-backup
These days I only have my laptop and an external harddisc. Within the last half year I already had to recover my file twice. The first time my mainboard said “good bye” to me and there was no possibility to Continue Reading …
iPod Nano 2. Gen und Rockbox
Since Summer 2009 Rockbox is running (unstable) on a iPod nano 2nd generation. Reason enough to try it. Rockbox is a free software replacement for the firmware held on various forms of digital audio players (DAPs). Rockbox offers an alternative Continue Reading …