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Podcast Episode #8 – Apple takes over the work
We’re back! It’s been a long time since our last podcast and we apologize!
This week we talked about why Apple is looking at purchasing ARM, the iPad and some questions we have about Ubuntu’s user experience research.
- Apple to purchase ARM (appleinsider.com)
- Ubuntu and notification area elimination (design.canonical.com)
- Ubuntu and making my freaking network settings disappear, disabling alt-tab, and disabling my task-bar when I tried to fix it…
- iPad hmmmm
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I’m not getting a Zune because I use linux (a true pointless rant)
Today I was talking to Trevor and something dawned on me… I’m not buying a new Microsoft Zune because I use linux(Ubuntu). Years ago I bought one of the first generation 30gb Zune’s and it has served me well, until 2 years ago when I fully switched over to Linux. I tried to make it work with linux, I really did! I loaded up a VM with my old XP Pro installation and hooked up my media library to it (via shared folders), and this worked for a little while, but as time progressed something started to happen. The months rolled on an soon I realized that I wasn’t booting into this virtual machine I had built to sync my library…podcasts…vodcasts…all the changing media that I used to listen to was being left behind(well atleast as far as the Zune was concerned). Now I wasn’t any less up to date with the information that was contained in the media that I wasn’t syncing with the Zune, I just wasn’t using the Zune. Now I’m not sure if it was the extra step of firing up another operating system or if it was the hassle of trying to get USB to pass through to the VM, but I discovered something…..
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Setting up for Python development in Ubuntu
I’ve been working on a Python graphics library and trying to do some development in Ubuntu. It wasn’t going well, and most of the development took place on Windows XP. Much of the difficulty in Ubuntu was trying to make Python see the library as an installed library. To do that in Windows, I merely put the code in C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\balthasar, but trying to do the equivalent in Ubuntu with the dist-packages folder was a mess and, I gathered, a really bad idea altogether.
Fortunately, there is a simple way to edit the .bashrc file in Ubuntu to add a home directory folder to Python’s search path. read more
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Windows 7 RC – Update
After a couple weeks of using the RC I’ve gone back to Vista. That’s right, Vista at this point in time is better. I would rather be running the Beta of 7 than the RC. Don’t get me wrong it looks promising but it’s just not functional. Well it is if you don’t plan on using any new devices or plugging you keyboard or mouse into a different USB port. The RC has problems recognizing new devices or devices that were not plugged in when the OS was installed. For example, I tried plugging a USB Flash drive in so I could get some drivers for another computer so I could finish setting it up. I put the flash drive in and waited and waited and waited…. Nothing, Windows just sat there trying to install the device. I then tried it on another RC machine same thing. Needless to say I was annoyed and put the project on hold for a while. I continued doing other work for about 45 minutes when I was alerted by Windows that my device was ready to use. Forty-Five minutes!!!
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Podcast Episode #6 – Way behind Schedule
Well we are extremely behind in recording these. I hope to get caught up at some point.
Here’s some of what we talked about…
- Topics
- Win 7 RC – is it worth getting hyped up for, windows mobile sweetness – gAlarm
- Agile/processes – New toys (Macbook Pro, Nokia BH-503), boxee
- OS X Java Vulnerability
- IT Conversations (Stackoverflow)
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Installing and Configuring ircd-hybrid on Ubuntu 9.04
So, the other day I was trying to setup an irc server for department communications and was having a lot of trouble getting it to accept connections from outside of localhost. I’m using ircd-hybrid on Ubuntu 9.04 and I messed with this for hours. I went through the ircd.conf and I kept changing the “host” parameter and different things but I finally figured out how to get the server to accept outside connections.
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My Experiences with the Jaunty Jackalope
I wish I could say that Ubuntu was all fun and games. I really want to love it with all my heart, but, unfortunately, just like with any relationship, sometimes it sneaks up on you and stabs you in the back (maybe that speaks to my relationships). For me it happened with my upgrade to the latest distribution upgrade: Ubuntu 9.04.
