Monthly Archives: November 2008

5 Vital Things You Must Do After Installing Ubuntu

By | Published: November 20, 2008
Inspired by many other lists I've seen. This one is mine.
  1. Play with it
  2. Configure it the way you want it, not the way some list on a blog tells you
  3. Play with it some more
  4. Join our Community *
  5. Turn the computer off and spend some time with your friends and family
* But only y'know, if you want to.
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Latest meme shows I have no decent books on my desk

By | Published: November 12, 2008
See Phils blog for details of this.. Here's mine:-
    If you already have a central System Landscape Directory in place, we recommend that you install an additional System Landscape Directory for administration purposes in the central administration and monitoring system only if the existing System Landscape Directory is running in a non-production system.
-- SAP Netweaver 2004s Upgrade Master Guide - SAP. 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open it to page 56. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. 5. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
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Amusing Matrix and Windows Parody

By | Published: November 11, 2008
Ok, so Matrix parodies have been done to death, but this one from College Humor is actually pretty well done. Watch to the very end for the punchline :)
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Click here if you can't see the plugin above. Yes it needs flash, no that doesn't make you a bad person for watching it. Thanks to sladen for pointing it out to me.
Posted in Fun, Ubuntu | 6 Comments

Ubuntu Post Install

By | Published: November 5, 2008
Following on from Clint, Christer, and Valent who all detail the first things they do post install on a Linux system.. Here's mine:-
  • Enable Medibuntu repository (see their site for details)
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/intrepid.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update
  • Get the good (*) stuff
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras vlc mplayer w32codecs miro hpodder skype recordmydesktop ardour audacity ffmpeg ssh gnome-do wine dosbox dosemu spectemu-x11
Mostly media stuff like DVD playback, codecs, fonts, Flash and Java get installed with ubuntu-restricted-extras. VLC and MPlayer for when Totem doesn't cut it. Miro and hpodder for downloading my video and audio podcasts. Evil skype for talking to evil friends. Some screencasting and audio & video manipulation tools. SSH for remote access and gnome-do for fast application access. Finally some fun can be had with wine and various emulators.
  • The "optional" (**) stuff
After all that has finished, I might go and get Zattoo for a bit of TV watching, Gitso for providing support, Gwibber for keeping up to date with Twitter and identi.ca, Google Gears for offline Google Docs and finally VirtualBox for running legacy operating systems. * For some 'good' read 'bad'. ** I always install this lot so it's hardly optional, but it's a little more manual.
Posted in Advocacy, Linux, Ubuntu | 3 Comments