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“Why” Microsoft has more desktop installs than Linux — Network World pontification

kubulai — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:39:47 +0000

With a small amount of commercial promotion, another Linux incarnation, Android, dominated the mobile device market (from 20% to at least 51% in FY2011) -- Linux on the desktop would have a similar change in market share with similar promotions. The real deal however is that OS manufacturer is becoming irrelevant with OS agnostic Cloud-based communications and apps that run in browsers, so eventually a for-pay OS that achieves nothing more than a free OS will fall away. [...]

EdUbuntu 12.04: Configuring to get work done

kubulai — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:58:13 +0000

Last night we installed the new Ubuntu 12.04 Precise on our HP 6910p business class notebook from a USB memory stick. The installation went about as quick and painless as any we have done. We also installed Blue Fish, FileZilla, Chromium, Compiz configuration manager, and SSH Server, and did some configuring of the Launcher bar. [...]

Heads Up!

kubulai — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:19:31 +0000

Pay Attention! This is powerful. You carry your phone with you, use it when you are mobile.

When you get home you drop it into its charging dock and it connects to keyboard and screen — it is now a PC with PC performance, software, and features.

You go to a friend’s house, drop it [...]

LED Lighting: advent of the “bulb-less” Lighting Appliance

kubulai — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 04:59:45 +0000

Will $60 LED bulbs be the new green incandescent? http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17788178

The price and carbon terrorism is so extreme — CFLs last 1-3 months, not 10 years. I have a pile on my work bench. And they hurt us more in the manufacturing and contain Hg. The law does not even force retailers to take back [...]

Ubuntu Release Schedule

kubulai — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:29:57 +0000

The Ubuntu release schedule is rather hard to find: the link is here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseSchedule

Ubuntu 12.04 will be released April 26, 2012. It will be supported for five (5) years thereafter.

How Linux is Made

kubulai — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 05:29:31 +0000

Gnome 3 Taskbars

kubulai — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 17:57:41 +0000

The last year has been one of aggravation for us, as we have been using Ubuntu for our teaching lab and of course the Unity thing was shoved down our throats. Now we have a sideways Launcher we have to hunt down and take pot shots at while it tries to evade our clicks by slipping off the side [...]

Configuring Ubuntu 12.04 Precise (beta) to get work done

kubulai — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 01:10:05 +0000

In Ubuntu 12.04 Precise (Beta) we installed the basic OS. Now we will configure so we can actually get work done. First we need to know what the root password is so that we can shell to root. Otherwise we are stuck every command typing sudo and our password — which gets old very fast.

Open [...]

Ubuntu 12.04 Precise (beta)

kubulai — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:16:44 +0000

The new April Ubuntu 12.04 ‘Precise’ release is around the corner so we installed from the dailies to see what to expect. To configure it after it is installed we have another post here: http://jdnash.com/2012/03/configuring-ubuntu-precise-to-get-work-done/.

We have NOT installed the 11.xx versions on our production equipment because we cannot afford to loose the ability to [...]

Why Unity?

kubulai — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 04:09:29 +0000

We received some insite today on the reason Canonical forced Unity upon us. Apparently Canonical is trying to implement voice commands and will restore the menu system next month in the April release of Ubuntu 12.04. They will also add a new “HUD” which seems to be a cross between the Unity “Dashboard” (the red [...]