Leadership. Business Change. Technology. Life Balance.
Leadership. Business Change. Technology. Life Balance.
Last week I ordered new parts for a Linux Mint PC. They all arrived safely on Friday and were assembled within an hour. And with bated breath I turned on the power to find that everything worked as the Linux Mint Live CD whirred into action. By the way, if you were expecting a review [...]
I’m going to build a new Linux PC from scratch and install Linux Mint 10 Julia. I’ve purchased the following components and hope everything arrives by the weekend. Here’s what I’ve bought: Motherboard: Asus M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Memory: Kingston KVR1333D3N9K2/4G Hard Drive: Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB Sony DRU-880S [...]
Both Dropbox and Ubuntu One provides personal cloud computing services for storing files online and syncing them across your computers. Both offer free storage of 2GB albeit it is possible to get over 10GB free from Dropbox using referrals. In this short review I hope to convey my experiences with both services and provide a [...]
When installing Opera on Linux Mint 10 “Julia” using APT (advanced package manager) the package signature isn’t verified because I don’t have a copy of the public key on my keyring. The warning message is as follows: W: GPG error: http://deb.opera.com stable Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not [...]
Use the Amazon Music Downloader to find and buy millions of MP3 songs and albums at Amazon. An apt-based package is available for Debian 5 and Ubuntu 9.10 but not Linux Mint 10. To get it to work with Linux Mint 10 “Julia” (or Ubuntu 10.10 “Maverick Meerkat“) follow these simple steps. First, download the Amazon MP3 Downloader .deb [...]
The Citrix XenApp client lets you connect to remote corporate applications. To do this from Linux Mint you’ll need to install a Citrix XenApp client. Follow these steps to install on Linux Mint 10 ‘Julia’: Download the Citrix XenApp client package from the Citrix Web site (.deb version.) From the download directory type: sudo dpkg -i icaclient_11.100_i386. patched.deb (substitute [...]
I installed Linux Mint 10 Julia on my HP Mini 5102 netbook yesterday evening in less than an hour. First impressions are very favourable. My netbook, which is less than a year old, always gave the impression that it was struggling under the weight of Ubuntu. Now it is responsive and a pleasure to work [...]
Frustrated with the performance of Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat on my HP Mini 5102 netbook and numerous problems with Ubuntu One I decided to try another Linux distribution. Since I was using mintMenu on Ubuntu the obvious choice is Linux Mint. Installation is a breeze. No issues whatsoever and everything appears to be working out-of [...]
I had intended to stay on Ubuntu Netbook Edition (UNE) 10.04 LTS for a while. However, I was frequently frustrated that fixes to known errors (bugs) were getting into Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat or even Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal long before backports to Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx appear. Some of these, particularly those bugs concerning [...]
In my post Installing Amazon MP3 Downloader on Ubuntu 10.10 I explain how to install Amazon MP3 Downloader on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. This post provides a simple alternative solution using the Banshee media player.
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