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 [...]
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YoFrankie! Unsupported!
Posted: 5th December 2010 by leftyfb in FAIL, games, gaming, linux, technology, ubuntuTags: blender, FAIL, games, linux, ubuntu
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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 [...]
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 [...]
