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Heads Up!

Posted on April 27, 2012April 27, 2012 by John Nash

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…

How Linux is Made

Posted on April 12, 2012 by John Nash

Gnome 3 Taskbars

Posted on April 7, 2012April 18, 2012 by John Nash

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

Posted on March 17, 2012March 18, 2012 by John Nash

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)

Posted on March 17, 2012March 17, 2012 by John Nash

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…