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A Few Internet Radio Tips (Karmic)
December 20th, 2009 at 3:42 pm » Comments (0)
Your first effort will be to locate a radio station that streams its broadcasts to the Internet. Radio stations are small to meduium sized businesses. Your local stations may or ...more »Recovering A Lost Desktop (GNOME)
December 10th, 2009 at 4:40 pm » Comments (0)
Recently an app crashed on me. Worse, it left me staring at an empty desktop without icons. Only my wallpaper was visible. Restarting X had no effect. I tried dragging ...more »HowTo Determine Possible Screen Resolutions (Ubuntu)
December 4th, 2009 at 11:22 am » Comments (0)
In an earlier post, Konstipated Koala, I documented a screen resolution bug and provided links that would enable affected users to find a work-around. Armed with that knowledge I attempted ...more »GNOME Panel Management with help from Docky (Tutorial)
November 24th, 2009 at 5:10 pm » Comments (0)
When GNOME 3 is officially released next year it will no longer have a bottom panel. The default bottom panel in GNOME 2 can be problematic at times. Some applications ...more »Fedora 12 On A Stick (Tutorial)
November 18th, 2009 at 11:46 am » Comments (1)
Now that Fedora 12 has been released you may want to take it for a test drive. Traditionally, this is the role of a livecd. However, even though it is ...more »The Screen Resolution Bug Resurfaces in Fedora
November 17th, 2009 at 10:58 pm » Comments (0)
A few weeks ago I posted an article titled 'Konstipated Koala' in which I documented an Ubuntu 9.10 bug that limits screen resolution to 800X600 for some machines with Intel ...more »How To Install Bilbo on Ubuntu 9.10 (GNOME)
November 12th, 2009 at 1:08 pm » Comments (1)
Bilbo is an offline blogging client supporting several blogging platforms including Wordpress, Blogger and Movable Type. It is a "HotPick" in the Linux Format magazine, issue #125. There, you can ...more »LiveCD’s and MD5SUMS – A Tutorial
November 8th, 2009 at 12:52 pm » Comments (1)
Fedora 12 is scheduled for release on November 17. I will download the .iso file and the associated md5sum. I'll take it for a spin and most likely will write ...more »On Curing Your Sick Koala
November 6th, 2009 at 11:39 am » Comments (1)
It's been over a week since Ubuntu released the latest beta of Karmic Koala. Yes, I call it a beta because that's what it is. A poll on ubuntuforums.org indicates ...more »Konstipated Koala – Bug # 448612
November 2nd, 2009 at 2:44 pm » Comments (4)
If your monitor uses an Intel video driver you would be wise to test drive the Ubuntu 9.10 distro before installing. Do this by burning a livecd or a USB ...more »Blogroll
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