On Friday the new versions of Ubuntu and their related projects came out. So on Saturday Hubby and I went to task updating to Edgy Eft, but instead of installing Kubuntu we decided this time to go for Ubuntu. The main difference as far as I’m concerned is that Ubuntu uses the Gnome desktop environment […]
Technology
They hate me
Technology seems to hate me. I was getting mega spam on my photoblog so I tried to implement an anti-spam thing but it didn’t work; I got spam but couldn’t get any other comment :crazy:. I tried a different anti-spam thing, which I thought was working but actually I can’t get comments at all. I […]
CUPS and Gutenprint
We bought new ink for the printer today so I decided it would be a good idea to have another crack at installing the printer on Kubuntu. I used the printer wizard and it wouldn’t install the driver, so I tried in administrator mode; that didn’t work either. I downloaded the source for Gutenprint (a […]
Cyberworld
This guy, David Storey, works (when he leaves the basement) with my husband, they were in the same office until the computer science people moved buildings. There was a bit of talk when he bought the virtual island on Planet Calypso in Entropia Universe. I wondered where he got the money as a PhD student […]
Foogoogled
Okay so I’m really just relaying something I read on The Foo Logs but these things are cool and I had to mention them. Google has a new pinging service that seems to be quite effective. As soon as I added http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 to my Options > Writing > Update Services in WordPress I got all […]
Scanning on KDE
My li’l bro just asked me to scan him a page in my kids cookbook. The same page he’s been stealing the book from me for years for and the same page I asked mum to bring it back for me. The chunky chocolate cookies are excellent! I’ve stuck to the recipe and I’ve made […]