After my upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) I had been experiencing a number of network-related problems. Yesterday I was able to fix them.

Last Saturday I went to the second BarCamp in Gent. BarCamp is a so-called unconference where everybody is supposed to participate in one way or another.

I gave a 20 minute presentation about my switch from Windows to Ubuntu. You can find the presentation slides (in S5 format) here.

Eclipse has built-in support for spell checking but it only includes two platform dictionaries: English (United Kingdom) and English (United States). Fortunately it is possible to use any aspell dictionary in Eclipse.

Update: After writing this blog post, I ran into a number of problems and redid my setup in a different way.

Yesterday my brand new Drobo arrived. I ordered it online together with 2 Seagate ST31000340AS Barracuda 1TB drives. Even though the Linux support by Data Robotics is still in beta, I was able to get the Drobo up and running on my Ubuntu 8.10 server.