http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/category-192-linux en 2008 NickR unknown_webmaster@acme.heaven 53.8481 -1.829 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:25:33 GMT Yet Another Community System http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 59 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-169-ubuntu-8.10-intrepid-ibex-released http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-169-ubuntu-8.10-intrepid-ibex-released Available from Ubuntu download page, announcement - Ubuntu 8.10 released. From a users viewpoint, this version offers various new improvements including:  Support for 3G wireless devices and improved Wi-Fi support. Nautilus, desktop file manager now has tab support. Encrypted private directories. guest user mode. On a more technical side, there is a newer Kernel - version 2.6.27, Gnome 2.24, Xorg 7.4, Updated Samba for Windows networking, Xen virtual machine. I will be downloading shortly and testing it from the LiveCD, I hope to see improvements with Xorg's auto-configuration ... more nickr Blog Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:51:12 GMT http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-169-ubuntu-8.10-intrepid-ibex-released#comments 0 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/comments/post.php/article/169 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/comments/feed.php/article/169 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A169 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-167-getting-power-management-to-work-in-ubuntu http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-167-getting-power-management-to-work-in-ubuntu After noticing that my Laptop was not Spinning down its HDD, I decided to investigate, a quick google and on the first page I found a useful page: Power Management - Ubuntu Wiki . After going through the guide, I noticed that my Harddrive was spinning down very quickly. After a bit of experimentation with different settings for the spindown time, I realise that the issue was with the APM settings overriding the spindown setting. The solution was use a setting of 128 to 255 and the HDD will spin down according to the spindown setting - anything less than 127 ... more nickr Blog Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:04:53 GMT http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-167-getting-power-management-to-work-in-ubuntu#comments 0 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/comments/post.php/article/167 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/comments/feed.php/article/167 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A167 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-166-my-ongoing-saga-of-moving-to-linux http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-166-my-ongoing-saga-of-moving-to-linux If your wondering where I have been, well, I apart from a summer vacation touring the South of England, I have been migrating slowly to Linux. The distribution I have currently chosen is Linux Mint. I think this is a more polished and stable version of Ubuntu, but not just that, but its default configuration is closer to how I prefer things to be configured. I am still considering using Debian Testing, but am waiting to for Lenny (the current testing) to be released to see how long it takes for the new testing to stabilise. So this ... more n1ckr Blog Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:32:20 GMT http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-166-my-ongoing-saga-of-moving-to-linux#comments 0 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/comments/post.php/article/166 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/comments/feed.php/article/166 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A166 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-164-xp-pro.-the-end-is-nigh-30th-june-and-support http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-164-xp-pro.-the-end-is-nigh-30th-june-and-support Windows XP reaches its sell-by date in a few days (with the exception of XP Home "either June 30, 2010, or one year after the general availability of the next version of Windows"). default.mspx Mainstream support ends 4/14/2009. That's only 10 months full support left ! Extended support ends 4/8/2014. Which is security fixes only, no new versions of browsers, media players or support for newer products (eg though, doubtful, next version of office might not support XP due to using a Vista only feature that will not get backported to XP). Even with XP SP3 only recently been ... more N1ckR Blog Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:48:16 GMT http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/article-164-xp-pro.-the-end-is-nigh-30th-june-and-support#comments 0 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/comments/post.php/article/164 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/comments/feed.php/article/164 http://www.ngrhodes.co.uk/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A164