Okay, I’m back in Ubuntu now! It turned out be as simple as disabling APIC in the BIOS. I downloaded and unpacked (instead of installing) Firefox 3.0a5pre (Fx 3 nightly build). Below are a couple of screen shots (click for full-size in new tab): Firefox 3.0a5pre in Ubuntu (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a5pre) Gecko/20070519 Minefield/3.0a5pre) My Ubuntu Desktop. I am still using the default background. Unlike Windows when your first install and run Ubuntu, your desktop is completely blank. The only two items I have on there right now is the link to Fx 3.0a5pre as well as…
May 2007
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I haven’t even been on WordPress a year yet. Earlier today Akismet caught the 10,000th spam comment! I knew my blog was popular among the Fx & TBird community but it also seems to be popular place for spammers to try to advertise anything from Rx Drugs, Male Enhancement Products, Fake Watches, Furniture, Cars and just about anything else you could think of. However, this would be a good time to point out that I have no longer have the time to go through the hundreds of comments that Akismet catches daily and remove any legitimate comments that may have…
Early I wrote Ubuntu Success!, however now whenever I try to start Ubuntu it won’t start. Either I get a black screen with “Starting…” over if try to do recovery/rescue it does a bunch of stuff then stops after “Enabling IO-APIC IRQs”. I am posting over the Ubuntu Forums and see if they can give me some direction with this issue and why I couldn’t get my “data” drive to work (my Windows XP drive was okay). MagniolaSouth asked in the prior post about screenshots, once I can get it working and find a good screenshot program (FastStone is only…
Before I went to bed last night I started downloading the alternate desktop CD for Ubuntu. Checked this morning and it has successfully downloaded and as able to burn it onto a CD. Even better I was able to boot from the CD and get Ubuntu installed and working. So as the saying goes, “The third time is the charm!” So far so good. Only minor problem I have had so far is I can’t set my resolution to 1440×900 so I am using 1280×960. Also for whatever reason I can not get Ubuntu to read my data drive. It…
From mozillaZine Firefox Builds Forum… Please join the Mozilla QA community for Testday on Friday, May 18th,2007! This week, we will be looking at the Firefox 1.5.0.12 and 2.0.0.4 and Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 Release Candidates The event will run Friday, May 18th, 2007, from 7am – 5pm PDT Please visit http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_QA_Community:Firefox_2004rc3/15012_Community_Test_Day for all the info regarding the event. Jump into the #testday channel on irc.mozilla.org on Friday to participate. We hope to see you there! Thanks. Carsten Mozilla QA
I am going to try again tonight to download the alternate desktop CD for Ubuntu. The responses I had received in the Ubuntu Forums all seemed to agree that my download was bad. Further it seems that many folks had better luck downloading and installing from the alternate instead of the LiveCD. One really good tip I did get from the CyberNet Forums was to burn the ISO no faster than 4X. Also need to say thanks to PDecker for recommending the FREE CDBurnerXP Pro for burning the ISO to CD-R. If all goes well, I hope to have Ubuntu…
Earlier today I posted Microsoft: Free Software Violates Patents!. Todd Bishop has a lengthy article on his blog today about this topic. However the article is more about the Free Software Foundation and it’s draft of the General Public License Version 3 (GPL, the license under which many open-source programs are distributed). Eben Moglen is the legal counsel to the Free Software Foundation and had this to say: The recent “saber-rattling” further illustrated the importance of protecting against Microsoft’s attempts “to disrupt free software production through the inculcation of a large inventory of most-likely invalid patents.” There also appear to…
If you are interested in testing or just seeing what the new Fx 2.0.0.4 is all about, you can download the RC3 build via the Mozilla FTP server . It is important to keep in mind this may or may not be the final release. The developers have already had to “re-spin” the RC builds twice now because of new bugs that have been discovered during testing. News Source: mozillaZine
Microsoft must be losing lots of money to free software such as Linux and OpenOffice.org, as they are now whining that “Free Software Violates 235 Patents”: The Linux kernel – the deepest layer of the free operating system, which interacts most directly with the computer hardware – violates 42 Microsoft patents. The Linux graphical user interfaces – essentially, the way design elements like menus and toolbars are set up – run afoul of another 65, he claims. The Open Office suite of programs, which is analogous to Microsoft Office, infringes 45 more. E-mail programs infringe 15, while other assorted FOSS…
Back in January I raved about the then FastStone Capture. Earlier this week FastStone Capture version 5.4 was released and much to my disappointment has become shareware. You get a free 30-day trial then you have shell out $30 to get the “real” (usable) version. Now granted version 5.3 may not have all the new features (not they are any exciting much less worth paying for) or be bug fee (not that I have had any issues with bugs) but it was freeware. Now, there a couple options available if you do not want to do that Shareware version. First…