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
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
Gnome 3 Taskbars
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
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…