It’s been almost a year since I’ve posted anything here. Sorry about that. I’m not very good at making time to publicize ongoing events. But to play a little ketchup, here’s some things that have happened throughout the year: Geowoodstock IX This was an amazing trip! We took a trip up to Niagara [...]
Archive for the ‘linux’ Category
A little catch-up
Posted: 10th March 2012 by leftyfb in Daily Accomplishments, geocaching, linux, Personal, technology0
The much awaited release of Firefox 4.0 is finally out. From my brief tests it does seem a hell of a lot faster than it’s 3.x predecessor both in opening up and loading up all my previously opened tabs. This is even with a dozen or so addons installed. Firefox is back to being [...]
So I tried out Unity tonight…
Posted: 28th February 2011 by leftyfb in FAIL, linux, technology, ubuntuI’ll make this quick. I thought I’d give Ubuntu 11.04 and more specifically, Unity a try tonight. I then tried to record what I was seeing. Here are the results:
YoFrankie! Unsupported!
Posted: 5th December 2010 by leftyfb in FAIL, games, gaming, linux, technology, ubuntuTags: blender, FAIL, games, linux, ubuntu
First some specs on this brand spanking new laptop: Intel® Core™ i7-840QM (1.86GHz, 8 threads, turbo boost up to 3.2GHz, 8M cache 6GB Shared Dual Channel DDR3 Memory NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 445M 3GB Ubuntu 10.04 LTS installed with all the latest updates installed and the latest Nvidia drivers from their site installed. It can play [...]
FOSScon 2010 followup
Posted: 25th June 2010 by leftyfb in linux, technology, ubuntuTags: events, FOSS, linux, open source, ubuntu
Sorry it’s taken so long to post about this. So last Friday I and a friend of mine, Joe, took off from North Eastern Massachusetts headed for Rochester NY for the inaugural 2010 FOSScon. Joe has just finished taking courses at Lincoln Tech and is about to take the tests for A+, Network plus and [...]
off to FOSSCON
Posted: 16th June 2010 by leftyfb in linux, technology, ubuntuTags: conference, event, linux, open source, ubuntu
I just registered and booked a hotel to attend FOSSCON this Saturday. The official description of the event is as follows: The people behind FOSSCON are free software enthusiasts, user group members, coders and users — just like you! Free software is all about community and this is a very grassroots event, organized by the [...]
“…But our princess is in another castle!”
Posted: 25th May 2010 by leftyfb in gaming, linux, technology, ubuntuTags: computers, games, gaming, Intel, lanfest, linux, lucid, technology, ubuntu
For the past few years the Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community team has been asked to present Ubuntu at the LPANE / Intel Nor’Easter Lanfest and this year was no exception. In the previous years we brought laptops and some low end desktops with wine barely running some low end games and showing off some of [...]
the system is down
Posted: 21st April 2010 by leftyfb in linux, technology, ubuntuTags: linux, repository, ubuntu
In this case, it’s medibuntu. Or more specifically, their Ubuntu repository. As far as I can tell it’s been down for about a week now and was also down a while back for some time. For anyone who needs to utilize this pretty important resource, there seems to be mirrors out there which I wasn’t [...]
Finally, a remote desktop service for linux that doesn’t require opening firewalls!
Posted: 15th April 2010 by leftyfb in linux, technology, ubuntuTags: control, linux, package, remote desktop, teamviewer, ubuntu
As the topics says, we finally have a remote desktop solution without the need to open ports on a firewall or do reverse tunnel trickery. I’ve been using TeamViewer for a long time now to support my Windows and Mac customers and to remotely control the same at home. Now I have one single solution [...]
So not long ago I noticed that some of my samba shares weren’t working properly. By that, I mean, I could access the main share, but some of the subdirectories were giving me an “access denied” error when trying to traverse them. It was one of those things where it was just an annoyance that [...]
