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Ubuntu Edgy has been released, and I’ve downloaded and installed it.
The usual tango of backing up and reinstalling the OS, which sucks as a general rule but I stuff around with my machine so much it is always best to give it a clean installation.
This time my tar file had a EOF error and I [...]

Zac Barton has come up with the goods on getting the built in USB web camera working on the HP dv2000
heres the details of what did to get the webcam running (note i still dont have the mic working yet) and fyi im using ubuntu edgy
– install –
svn checkout http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/linux-uvc/
- i got revision 62.
cd linux-uvc/linux-uvc/trunk/
make
sudo [...]

The more I use Epiphany, the more I like it. It is fast and lightweight and customisable. The interface is clean and uncluttered and integrated well with Gnome. For example with the RSS Feed plug-in you can subscribe to a feed for a site and have it sent to Liferea. Nice. There is also a [...]

I’ve swapped over to Epiphany to see what it’s like. So far, pretty good. Flash and everything else seems to work really well, but I had a worry about getting Citrix working with that instead of Firefox. However I read up a post at http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-85398.html and it is all ok. Here’s an extract:
In case anyone’s [...]

I like the aesthetic sensibility behind Foresight Linux. It is the sort of mentality that Ubuntu needs to adopt and refine in order to deliver a commoditised user experienced, like Apple. Simple, beautiful design and elegant aesthetics that just work and satisfy the user need.

Mac OS X comes with an application called iMovie. It is really great, it lets you import digital video off your camera via a Firewire cable and edit it into very professional movies. It is very elegant, efficient and intuitive to use. You can output movies in several different formats and then use the typically [...]

My first computer was an Apple II. Sometime in the early 80’s I think but cannot remember clearly as I was only 11 or 12. It was fucking great though. I learned how to play Choplifter and write BASIC and defrag disks and trade pirated games and software with my friends. All the things one [...]