Category Archives: Advocacy

Countdown to LUGRadio Live 2009

By | Published: June 5, 2009

Looking forward to another weekend in Wolverhampton! No, really!

See you there?

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OMG Ubuntu One

By | Published: May 15, 2009

(Insert disclaimer here)

(Insert misinformed, misguided vitriol here)

Sorted, time for coffee!

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Asus, The Fair Weather Friend

By | Published: May 14, 2009

Dear Asus,

I write to you as a customer of your Eee PC line of computers.

I’d never really considered buying any of your hardware up until you released your Eee PC line of products. When I discovered that the Eee 701 was pre-loaded with (Xandros) Linux and came pre-configured with all the usual applications that …

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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 …

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Adobe Hits Eleven on the Irony Scale

By | Published: September 30, 2008

I learn from Cali Lewis via her twitter feed that Adobe are talking about developing a version of Flash for the iPhone.

Paul Betlem, Sr. Director of Engineering at Adobe Systems confirmed that Adobe is working on Flash for iPhone. He was speaking at the Flash On the Beach Conference and said, “My team …

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