ubuntu

I have a new Dell Precision M6500 laptop. It replaces my 4 year old Dell XPS M1710.

I'm not a big fan of the new default theme in Ubuntu 10.04. It's a bit too much I-wanna-look-like-Apple IMHO.

Fortunately the bisigi project contains a couple of really nice themes that you can use instead. Check them out.

After upgrading a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 the machine was so slow it was barely usable. top was showing a load average of 7 after opening Firefox or OpenOffice.

Even in this day and age, my former employer Inventive Designers refuses to send out an email to all customers when a new version of their (closed source) Scriptura product is available. They only send a notification email to those customers whose bugs have been fixed in the latest release.

After upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) some buttons no longer work in Eclipse 3.5. Clicking has no effect but keyboard shortcuts still work.

If you are running pidgin-facebookchat make sure you keep an eye on your bandwidth usage.

The user guide of the HTC Hero explains that Windows users can do tethering through the (Windows-only) HTC Sync software. I assumed that tethering on Ubuntu would be impossible without rooting the phone - just like any other Android device - but I was wrong.

A recent blog post on Planet Ubuntu reminded me of a trick to speed up Firefox (a little bit).

Earlier today I had to rotate an animated GIF. I thought I was in for a tough ride but it turns out to be pretty easy to do.

Earlier today I have upgraded my laptop to the release candidate of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty).