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Upgrade Begins!
Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers, Software
I’ve been running Kubuntu 6.06 LTS as my main OS on my home PC since it was released. Along the way, I’ve upgraded to KDE 3.5.5 and Amarok 1.4.3 and installed a variety of packages from unofficial sources. When I Edgy 6.10 was first released I looked into upgrading, but held off. This was due […]
Tags: 6.06LTS, 6.10, Dapper, Edgy, Kubuntu, Upgrade
Linux CLI Tip
Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers, Quickie, Software
Sometimes when you’re staring the bash prompt, you want to be able to see if a specific program is currently running. There are a couple of ways to do this; generally I run: ps –ef | grep ProgramName However I once saw a tip for doing something similar with top but I lost the link […]
Goodbye Dave
Posted by Mark | Filed under Humor, Video Games, Webcomics
Mr. Munroe swings and hits my funny bone once again. Dang I love reading xkcd. *grin*
Tags: funny, GLaDOS, HAL, humour, portal, Webcomics, xkcd
Miranda IM
Posted by Mark | Filed under Software
At my office we are required to be on an IM client for the entire work day. This is partly due to the company having multiple offices and partly due to some people working from home. In any case I did not much care for the client they had installed for me (Trillian Basic 31) […]
Thank you LifeHacker!
Posted by Mark | Filed under Software
Today I was reading an article over at LifeHacker about XBMC. Basically, they recommended upgrading from the last, ancient stable version to the latest SVN build; which I did this evening and boy am I ever glad I did. As now, I can play Matroska video files. Wheee! True, I technically could before but they […]
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