Archive for the 'Ubuntu' Category

KDE problems on Intrepid

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

I updated to 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) and while the new interface for KDE looks great, I am having major problems. Need to get some work done, so I haven’t had a chance to try and figure out what the issues are. I am writing this while using Gnome… Here is a nice screenshot of my […]

Garmin GPSmap 60CSx and Ubuntu

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

I have had the Garmin GPSmap 60CSx for awhile and have always used the Garmin software on my windows box to get my waypoints off the Garmin handset and onto my computer. Truth be told, I barely use my GPS, but that is starting to change. To use it more, means I need to be […]

Installing Imagick for PHP on Ubuntu through PECL

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

I need to work with editing some images programatically and have always favored ImageMagick over GD (to be fair, I haven’t used GD in at least 3 years). In the past, I used php to pipe commands to the command line via exec(), which never felt right. I remember seeing some development work on an […]

Ubuntu with RAID 1 and multidisk errors

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

I tried to upgrade my Ubuntu Server to the latest LTS and it wouldn’t boot anymore. Did I mention that it was a software RAID 1, and probably not the most intelligent decision on my part since I had to manually set up the RAID 1. I had all the data backed up and decided […]

Mysql WorkBench 5.1 on Linux/Ubuntu

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

I am building a new database driven website for fun and decided to check on teh status of Workbench and see if they had a Linux version. As luck would have it, they launched a Linux version a couple of days ago! I downloaded the binary for Ubuntu from MySQL and tried to run it, […]