All blog posts tagged with ubuntu
Ubuntu 11.04 - revisit
Okay, so since my last rant on Ubuntu 11.04, I've had a chance to use it a little more and ... well ... I was completely correct about my first post. It's utter garbage. The interface is rubbish.
Even the installation is full of "WTF"s. I had to install it twice on my laptop because after the first …
Ubuntu 11.04
Today was my first forray into the new Ubuntu 11.04 - this was purely for experimentation, since I've given up on Ubuntu entirely because my installations keep crashing irrecoverably (over the past 2 years, I've had no fewer that 6 Ubuntu installation complete crap themselves mysteriously on differe…
Ubuntu Upgrades Keep Breaking
Okay, here's the deal - either I am the unluckiest Linux user in the world, or Ubuntu's upgrade process is severely unstable. I am filled with dream and fear every time Ubuntu wants to upgrade something, because I can never be sure if the machine will work thereafter.
Here's my history:
Working at a…
Ubuntu 10.04 + PHP 5.3 + XMail
If you install XMail on your Ubuntu 10.04 server, you will find that PHP won't be able to send mail out. You will repeatedly an error similar to this:
/var/lib/xmail/spool/temp/1277773767000.23491.p2198888.pubip.serverbeach.com: Permission denied
Don't bother with file permissions - they don't work.…
Ubuntu 10.04 - Take Two
After working in Ubuntu 10.04 for a bit, I have one major gripe - OpenJDK/IcedTea. I have no idea whose decision it was to drop the official Sun JDK from the repositories (or if Oracle had a part to play in this), but OpenJDK is a pile of steamy dog-droppings.
Since upgrading (and being forced to sw…
Java Applets + Ubuntu 10.04 = Clusterfuck
After dicking around for 2 days, I'm fairly convinced that as things stand right now, trying to develop Java Applets on Ubuntu 10.04 is a complete and total clusterfuck (no, I'm not being needlessly crude, it's a real term - look it up).
Consider the following:
- Sun JDK not directly supported under …
Ubuntu 10.04 First Impressions
I just completed my upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 and here's my first impressions.
Honestly - right now I don't care for the new colours. The dark-grey menus are actually surprisingly hard to read. And no, I'm not blind.
The move of the close, min, max buttons from the right to the left is uncomfortable a…
PHP 5.3
This post is a bit of a b*tch-fest, so please excuse me. I really do hate to be one of "those" guys who whines about something in Open Source without contributing directly to the project in question, but I just have to on this one.
As you can guess from the title, in project in question in PHP, and …
Visit my Friends and Family
If you've enjoyed my site, please take a moment to visit my friends and family, many of whom have some interesting insights, and entertaining thoughts and ideas.
- Crause Family - the family website
- Peter Crause - my father
- Justin Crause - my brother
- Cencina Photomagic - great photographer
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