I’d heard that Dell were offering Ubuntu Linux on some of their laptops and I hadn’t really looked into it. But I came across this page the other day and it’s pretty neat to get Ubuntu (or any Linux) preloaded on a laptop from a major vendor: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=d It’s good to support coming from a [...]

Support Boston’s Pine Street Inn this year and buy holidays cards based on a photograph I took: http://www.pinestreetinn.org/news.php?id=343 The photograph also came 24th in the Boston Globe’s 2008 Winter Wonderland contest: http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/02/22/winter-wonderland-24/ Penny over at BostonZest did a write up on this and asked me to comment on the picture: http://www.bostonzest.com/2008/10/holiday-cards-to-support-pine-street-inn.html Updated: Oct 25th with [...]

I figured it’s time for me to try and install kde4 again! Previously I had to remove KDE4 due to package conflicts. There are installation instructions at: http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html So following the instructions there on what changes to make to your sources.list, and then run: aptitude update I’ve had some dependency issues, and installing the kde4 [...]

I thought I’d start looking at using Debian’s experimental E17 packages. I commented out all other E17 repo’s from my source.list and installed the debian e17 package. It installs a minimal amount of related packages, and there doesn’t seem to be lot of e17 packages available in the experimental repo sudo aptitude install e17 Reading [...]

WTF is Citibank thinking with their web interface: When I’m looking at my old statements I don’t want to have to wait for a PDF to download, then for Adobe Acrobat to open just so I can briefly look at an old statement. Come on there Citibank, give me a default option to view this [...]