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If you’re like me and have discovered a couple of kick-ass Qt applications and are wondering how to make Qt programs look more like the default Ubuntu Human theme, I present you with a quick cheat sheet.

There’s luckily one KDE style available in the Ubuntu repositories that only ( Read more... )

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I think Mark really hit the nail on the head with this sentence he used on a recent blog post on Inkscape changing to Launchpad for bug tracking.

“We don’t have money on our side, but we do have the power of collaboration.”

- Mark Shuttleworth

I’ll definitely be using it in ( Read more... )

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I learned about this program from Sacha Chua’s blog. Workrave is a cool time-to-take-a-break-reminder program that doesn’t just lock your screen (like the default typing break program in Ubuntu). It has micro-breaks which are great to remind me to get back to working on whatever I ( Read more... )

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The EM D01NE is a (I think) HSDPA PCMCIA card. The driver for the modem comes with Ubuntu 7.04 (Maybe before). I get about 2Mbps from it (max is 3.8).

Getting this setup in Ubuntu is easier than getting it setup with Windows. The only gotcha is that you have to install Gnome-PPP ( Read more... )

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I added a new page to my website with some of my notes on installing Ubuntu 7.04 “Feisty Fawn” on my iBook G4. Even though PowerPC computers are no longer supported by Canonical I’m impressed with how little I had to do this time to get it working. Kudos to the Debian and Ubuntu ( Read more... )

I've upgraded Chiaki to Ubuntu 06.10.  I did a clean install this time because my 06.6 installation was pretty old, and had a good number of custom packages installed.  Luckily for me I found out that a lot of people have been having problems doing dist-upgrades.   I think 90% of those problems are because of people using non-official packages.  ( Read more... )

There were a lot of upgrades today in Dapper. And it turns out compiz is one of them. So I installed it and xserver-xgl. Here's how I got it running.

First install the xserver-xgl and compiz packages using apt-get or synaptic

(Originally taken from the instructions at http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/InstallxglThen edit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom ( Read more... )

Multi-input touch screen demos (Flash required).  This is probably the coolest thing I've ever seen.  The more I watch it the more I want to make it work.  It definitely feels like that's going to be the next generation in computers ( Read more... )

We've all had an MP3 or FLAC that we've wanted OGGed and I'm sure we've all made bashscripts to do this for us but there's an easier way! SoundConverter is a GNOME gui application that allows us to transcode our MP3s, OGGs, FLACs, and WAVs into any one of those formats in high or low quality (great for fitting more songs into your flash-based MP3/ ( Read more... )

So the author of Listen has taken code from Quod Libet (including code from my lyrics plugin) and ripped the copyright section (and my name) out and used it in his software. Now the code is GPL so I'm completely fine with him using it, it's why I write open-source code, but removing my name from it is not cool. Unlike Joe I'm not mad at him, I'm ( Read more... )