Archive for the 'Linux' Category

Open Office not working properly on Kubuntu 7.10

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Ever since I upgraded to Gutsy Gibson (7.10), Open Office has been having problems. It would open fine, but everyime I tried to access the menu, the screen would redraw and the menu would disappear. It wasn’t a huge deal, as I could shortcut most things, such as saving, undoing, bolding and closing the window. […]

Firefox performing better on Linux

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

In March, I wrote about Firefox’s woeful performance with some javascript heavy sites. I am happy to say, Firefox is performing much better on these sites now that I have upgraded to Gutsy Gibson and Firefox was upgraded. This contrasts with the fact that Firefox seems to be crashing a lot more on […]

Installing Eclipse, PDT & Subclipse on Ubuntu

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

I already had Eclipse installed, so I decided to install all the dependencies and then install PDT. Ben Ramsey has put together a nice list of urls. After getting all the deps installed through Eclipse, I installed PDT and started a new project. I quickly ran into some problems – the PHP Explorer was not […]

Firefox + JavaScript + Linux = BAD?

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

It can’t be so, yet it appears to be, at least on my box running Ubuntu Edgy Eft… In trying to use Google Docs, Firefox repeatedly freezes and or takes forever to respond when using spreadsheets online. This could be a problem with the JS on Google Docs, but it runs fine on Firefox […]

Installing Ubuntu 6.06 With RAID 1 ON Dell Server

Saturday, March 17th, 2007

I received my new Dell desktop and server on Wednesday, and spent the last couple of days installing Ubuntu on them. For my server, I have two 250 gig hard drives, and wanted to set up RAID 1. I can’t say I know a lot about RAID controllers, but from what I have read a […]