linux

Yes, I know just a few hours ago I was complaining about the work I had to do in setting up dapper drake 6.06 LTS. I am happy to say that everything works fine now. My box (where I am blogging this posting) is an old but reliable one: QDI 9 mobo, PIII @...
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Having some time to spend, I decided to upgrade my old home box to the newer ubuntu 6.06 lts (aka dapper drake). I have been a happy ubuntu user for some time now and I really feel that ubuntu is a wonderful collective effort. My setup is rather old but trustworthy. It installed the...
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In proper ubuntu fashion, two pictures I took on the way back from a conference in December of 2005. The colors have already become part of my ubuntu desktop. The river in the back is the river Aoos (pronounced uh-oh-oh-s) and spelled Αώος, if you are interested. Picasa continues to work beautifully, although I...
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A big, huge, monumental, thank you to the wonderful people at google who made picasa work for linux, too. I have been experimenting with picasa on my ubuntu box since yesterday. This morning, I am happy to say that Picasa works on my AMD64 box. Here is how I did it: 1) I downloaded...
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