Monthly Archives: March 2007

I Dont Like Brown!

By | Published: March 28, 2007

Apologies to Harry Enfield and Kathy Burke I see this morning through reading Robitailleâ€™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 [delete as applicable]) tells us that he has installed the latest version of Ubuntu under VMWare, and the only thing he has to say about it is that he doesn't like the brown theme!

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Direct Line Of Communication

By | Published: March 26, 2007

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 use bug trackers and mailing lists normally. It's just that I happened to be talking to these people and they offered help with the applications I had problems with.

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Command Not Found

By | Published: March 20, 2007

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 as of Ubuntu 7.04 [Feisty] [due out in April]) you get something like this:-

  alan@tigger:~$ mplayer
  The program 'mplayer' can be found in the following packages:
   * mplayer-nogui
   * mplayer
  Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package>
  Make sure you have the 'multiverse' component enabled
  -bash: mplayer: command not found

How cool is that!?

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