Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
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 [...]
No, unfortunately, not that decision. The decision to use Yahoo has the default search engine in Mozilla Firefox in Ubuntu 10.04 has been changed back to Google. Granted, I could care less what default search engine is used in Firefox. It’s a setting that can be changed in a very easy and user friendly manner. [...]
Songbird halts major support for linux
Posted: 2nd April 2010 by leftyfb in FAIL, linux, technology, ubuntuupdate: Songbird has now been forked and will keep supporting linux! The new project is now Nightingale. As many of you know we’re hard at work on NOFX and the release is looking really good – lots of cool improvements, including video playback. Some of you have noticed that the Linux version has fallen behind, leading to [...]
It’s official, Canonical (Ubuntu) has stopped caring about what its community actually wants and instead will go with the bad decision by it’s design team. Enough has been said about this issue so I’m not going bring up the reasons why this is a bad decision again. There are plenty of blogs, forum posts, polls, the [...]
From EarthHour.org : • Earth Hour is World Wildlife Fund’s global initiative where individuals, schools, organizations, businesses and governments turn off their lights for one hour to cast a vote in favor of action on climate change. By voting with their light switches, Earth Hour participants send a powerful, visual message demanding action on climate [...]
My first bug fix
Posted: 18th March 2010 by leftyfb in Daily Accomplishments, linux, technology, ubuntuTags: accomplishments, bug, computers, gnome, linux, technology, ubuntu, usability
Continuing on from my last post. step #4 fix the problem. So it turns out that the way in which the icons were being displayed wasn’t exactly incorrect. We were just letting the “gtk-menu-images” overwrite us and not show the menu icons for the application. The solution is in gtk_image_menu_item_set_always_show_image (). This forces the display [...]
Trying my hand at developing & bug fixing
Posted: 18th March 2010 by leftyfb in linux, technology, ubuntuTags: bug, computers, gnome, linux, lucid, technology, ubuntu, usability
WARNING: I am NOT a developer One of the first applications I like to install on a fresh build of ubuntu is called gSTM or “Gnome SSH Tunnel Manager”. This allows me to setup and enable multiple ssh tunnels to/from different places with the click of a button. It provides a nice notification area icon [...]
