Hot off the press, get yours now at the Ubuntu store. Congratulations to everyone on the release of the Karmic Koala (late I know but I wanted to wait till I got my shirt)! And here is a picture of me modeling my Ubuntu shirts (and I know I look grumpy I was focusing on [...]
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vrms: 16 non-free packages, 0.9% of 1712 installed packages.
Well yet another meem on planet ubuntu, and so without further ado: earobinson@MinusOne:/media/data/personal/hackergotchi$ vrms Non-free packages installed on MinusOne fglrx-modaliases Identifiers supported by the ATI graphics driver linux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.28 modules helper script linux-restricted-modules- Restricted Linux modules for generic kernels nvidia-173-modaliases Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org driver nvidia-180-kernel-source NVIDIA binary kernel module source [...]
Speed meem
Since everyone else is doing it.
Limited Edition Jaunty Jackalope T-shirts
In keeping with tradition the ubuntu store (well canonical store) has released a Limited Edition Jaunty Jackalope T-shirt to celebrate the release of ubunut 9.04. Get yours now (I have and they went really fast last time), and congratulations to everyone who made Jaunty Jackalope a success!
Tilda: The gaming style terminal
Well its been ages since my last real post, but life and twitter have been keeping me busy. Ever since I started using computers every 5 months or so I get board of my current computer setup and start to look at my other options, this can be anything from replacing a program, to changing [...]
New Hackergotchi
With the release of wordpress 2.6.1 I have once again updated my hackergotchi. This will be my third hackergotchi since 2006, and the original image was taken by my mother at our cottage in Pointe au Baril, and yes I am sitting on the barrel that markes the site of the original barrel that the [...]
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I got my Ubuntu Hardy Heron T-shirt Today. I will try and post some pictures soon. Maybe even update with a new hackergotchi.
My top 10 commands 2.0
I know that this has been done before but it seems to go around every once in a while and I always have fun reading them. So once again here are my top 10 commands. My Computer [sourcecode language="python"]earobinson@MinusOne:~$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head 143 cd 114 ls 53 [...]
Got My Powered By Ubuntu Stickers Friday
This Friday I got my powered by Ubuntu stickers, from system76. They came with a nice little letter pointing me to ubuntu-ca.org. I did send off for these about a year ago but free is free so I’m not complaining and my Ubuntu CD’s always come fast so I’m not complaining. Thanks to everyone who [...]
Lets Let APT-URL Install Repositories
APT-URL is one of my favorite programs. The great thing about it is I can keep a list of programs I like on a website and easily install all the program I like on a new box, or point someone new to Ubuntu to the website with all my favorite programs. The problem is that [...]
