In the following thread about programs that do not work/are not available under Dapper Drake 64-bit edition – Ubuntu Forums you can find a wonderful gem in the –force-architecture flag. Use the command:$ dpkg -i –force-architecture some_archive_for_i386_deb and install files that are not yet available for amd64. I did and installed Adobe’s Acrobat Reader 7.0,...
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Back in the old days of config files, you had to manually edit various .cfg files in order to fix everything and make it work. This still works today, but why bother? This is the kind of automaticity that I would like to see more of in newer linux distributions. Take,...
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Visit the ubuntu counter project and register as a happy ubuntu user and show your support for your favorite distro. I. #3273
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Ubuntu 6.06 Is Current Desktop Linux Champ – Yahoo! News (well, that was the big news from 2006. Yahoo has removed the story). Nevertheless, it is still my choice of desktop. Although the past postings have been “yes, but”, “it works now, it does not work in 10 minutes”, all these mishaps should be...
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No, I don’t want to upgrade to dapper. Just give me my trusted breezy badger. As I have already written in past postings, I was able (after some work) to get an old Pentium 3 box running with the latest 6.06 LTS dapper drake. I was also able to install the drake on...
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It was sad to watch a great player like Zidane end his career in such a low note last night at the final game against Italy.Perhaps, his send-off was part of the reason team France could not score an extra goal and take the trophy home. Passions run high during the game, emotions can make...
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The Gnome project’s cdrecording application is a nifty little thing called gnomebaker. Nice little app, looks like a lot like k3b (or k3b looks like gnomebaker a lot—depending on your choice of platforms). As advertised, it can read various lossy and lossless formats, including ogg, mp3 flac etc. However, as I discovered to...
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