Ubuntu 11.10 live from USB -- first impressions
Since I spent some time running Fedora 16 with GNOME 3/GNOME Shell via a live image, and I judged it as working well but not as polished in the design department as Ubuntu 11.04/11.10 with Unity, I...
View ArticleI got rid of HootSuite, Ping.FM, RSS Graffiti, the Twitter-Facebook-Identi.ca...
I try to automatically send links to my blog entries to all the social networks on which I maintain accounts (the exception being Google +, which I'm still updating manually). Over the past couple of...
View ArticleUsing the GNOME file manager's FTP capabilities to manage my Ode site
I've traditionally used stand-alone FTP clients like FileZilla and gFTP to interact with the servers I use. Only recently have I decided to start using the GNOME Nautilus file manager's FTP/SFTP...
View ArticleIt's becoming their Internet -- it should be our Internet
Responding to Rob Reed's Google+ post on the dark side of huge corporate entities -- read: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube -- controlling what we see and don't see on the Internet, I wrote a couple of...
View ArticleNavigating in GNOME 3/Shell in Fedora 16
The more I figure out how GNOME 3/Shell works in Fedora 16, the more I like it. I'm not at the point where I can say, "Oh, it's totally better than GNOME 2," but I'm increasingly able to do things the...
View ArticleUnity and GNOME Shell are more alike than different
I've been spending time each day working in Ubuntu 11.10's GNOME 3/Unity and Fedora 16's GNOME 3/GNOME Shell desktops. They're more alike than you think. Rather than do things the GNOME way,...
View ArticleA sentence for all (holiday) seasons
A Kohl's Black Friday parody ad inspired the following from Gizmodo's Mat Honan in reaction to the ad and Kohl's in particular, and the consumer culture in general. It is, as the title here states, a...
View ArticleSteve Jobs would cry to get his way
One of the best Apple-covering journalists out there, ArsTechnica's Jacqui Cheng, looks at the Walter Isaacson-penned Steve Jobs biography to analyze Why Steve Jobs Cried.
View ArticleA salute to Vim from ArsTechnica's Ryan Paul
As much as I dislike his Gwibber social-networking application, I'm that much more of an unabashed fan of Ryan Paul's tech journalism for ArsTechnica, itself a bastion of high-quality reporting and...
View ArticleUpdating Debian Squeeze on a 1999 Compaq Armada 7770dmt
I decided to pull what I call The Laptop out of its bag and update the Debian Squeeze installation that has been running on this 233 MHz Pentium II machine since soon after the most recent Debian...
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