Monthly Archives: March 2007

I Dont Like Brown!

Apologies to Harry Enfield and Kathy Burke

I see this morning through reading Robitaille’s Blog that Paul Thurrot doesn’t like the brown theme that Ubuntu has by default.

Paul (a major league Windows fan/fanboy/apologist/weenie ) tells us that he has installed the latest version of Ubuntu under VMWare, and the only thing he has …

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Direct Line Of Communication

One of the great things about Free and Open Source software is the availability of the developers. On three occasions recently I have contacted the developer of an application and had a favourable communication with them.

Of course I am not suggesting everyone starts emailing the developers of software and asks them questions! I …

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Command Not Found

I love this new feature in Ubuntu Feisty..

Edit: According to these pages this is also in Ubuntu Edgy (6.10), the current stable release.

If you type a command on Linux that doesn’t exist, normally you get this:-

alan@bishop:~$ mplayer
-bash: mplayer: command not found

With the package command-not-found installed (which is by default installed …

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Ubuntu is sexy alright

Could the new Ubuntu Splash get any more phallic?

Er, no.

Thanks to Lee for the pic.

Edit 16th March: The above image has now been replaced:-

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