Posts Tagged ‘ Linux ’
Image via WikipediaI was trying to find a way to get live cricket scores on my desktop. I could have used retreived rss feeds every few minutes, but I found a simpler way on a mailing list Here, a python script by Sridhar. I modified it a bit to fit my horizontal conky, and also the [ READ MORE ]
So, Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex releases today. As thousands try to upgrade/download ubuntu, the servers will be slower than usual. Heres one way to upgrade multiple PC to Intrepid Ibex. This also works for the daily updates. How the works is that One PC updates directly from ubuntu mirrors while the other PCs update from [ READ MORE ]
I installed Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Alpha 6 (64bit) today. Installation was pretty easy, networking and screen resolution was configured already. Only had to enable Hardware Drivers for my nvidia graphics card. Even Flash worked in Firefox without any hurdles (it used to be an issue in 64bit versions).The GRUB screen now shows “Last successful boot”, [ READ MORE ]
Image via Wikipedia Mark Shuttleworth, today announced the codename for Ubuntu 9.04 on the ubuntu-devel mailing list. They plan to improve Jaunty in matters of Booting Speed, “There are some specific goals that we need to meet in Jaunty. One of them is boot time. We want Ubuntu to boot as fast as possible – both in the [ READ MORE ]