Tag Archives: Ubuntu
How To: Stream Music From The iPhone In Ubuntu
This is the first how-to article that holds your hand step by step to stream music from the iPhone in Ubuntu over Wi-Fi. This will work on other distributions, simply replace apt-get with your package manager of choice. Requirements: – … Continue reading
Giving Away Software For Free Costs More Than You Would Think (Part 3)
For those of you less inclined to surfing all over my website, here’s a quick recap: Part 1: Did you know that the Ubuntu software repository contains 23,164 packages? I also introduce the Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO), and finally, reference … Continue reading
I Am Ubuntu User #17716
I just recently found The Ubuntu Counter project which has lofty aims of counting Ubuntu users. Fun in theory, but there is no way that every user will ever login to a webpage to register their machine. A better way … Continue reading
Giving Away Software For Free Costs More Than You Would Think (Part 2)
Starting with Part 1 of this series, I introduced the idea that free software is expensive to give away. For example, in 2000, the Debian distribution would have cost nearly 1.9 billion dollars to re-write from the ground up. It’s … Continue reading
Giving Away Software For Free Costs More Than You Would Think (Part 1)
Little known fact: The Ubuntu distribution is now includes 23,164 packages. How much did all of these packages actually cost to make? Well thanks to the Constructive Cost Model, (COCOMO) we can find out. COCOMO estimates how much it costs … Continue reading
I Don’t Think We’re In Kansas Anymore: How-To Install KDE 4 Beta 2 on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Beta 7.10!
Caution: As with any beta software, things can go wrong. I’m doing something that shouldn’t be done by mere mortals, all for the sake of experimentation. And for posterity, I did screw this up once. But I was able to … Continue reading
How To Mount Your iPhone Filesystem On Your Desktop In Ubuntu
Ever want to browse your iPhones’ filesystem on your Ubuntu machine? Follow these instructions and you’ll have it working in no time flat. This article assumes your iPhone is “out of jail” and has Installer.app installed. If you have not … Continue reading
Ubuntu Forums Firefox Plugin – Finding Answers To Stupid Questions Was Never So Easy
Attention Humor Disabled Digg Visitors, the tagline of this article is actually a joke! HDDV is a serious disease which effects approximately 23 million Digg front page visitors per month. I remembered awhile back that I had installed a plugin for the Steam … Continue reading
Trying out Gutsy Gibbon Part 2
I ran the following commands (again) sudo sed -e ‘s/\sfeisty/ gutsy/g’ -i /etc/apt/sources.list sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade 12:12 AM Started downloading. 12:30 Installing all the packages. Downloading from the Gutsy repositories at 6MB/sec didn’t take a long time. … Continue reading
Five Reasons Why Using Firefox On Windows Will Help You (Or Your Company) Migrate To Linux
Firefox has been my browser of choice for several years, and prior to that, I first came in contact with the technology that runs behind the browser, called the Gecko Renderer in early 1998. The thing that impressed me the … Continue reading