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Joooid Test
Tuesday, 24 May 2011 10:31 | Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 May 2011 10:34 | Written by Allan Eastmond |
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This is a test from Joooid on my Android
Time Flies When You're Having Fun!
Sunday, 12 September 2010 16:25 | Written by Allan Eastmond |
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Whoa! Doesn't time fly when you're having fun.
It's been a whole 7 months since our last blog post - hmmmm, not good! So what's been going on with Freedom IT? Well, we have completed a number of new websites for various organisations, check out the website portfolio for the detail; A few more businesses and a school are appreciating the benefit of a server installed with an enterprise-grade operating system (CentOS); It has been a good year so far for Freedom IT - more and more customers are able to appreciate the benefits of using open-source software. Changed Comments Component
Friday, 19 February 2010 14:25 | Written by Allan Eastmond |
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Well, I've just changed the comments component that I had installed (chronocomments) to jcomments. I couldn't get chronocomments to actually show the comments and I think it was something to do with the SH404 add-in I was using. I don't want to bag chronocomments at all - It just didn't work for me here and I was too lazy to try and get it to work! Acer Aspire One D250
Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:11 | Last Updated on Thursday, 12 November 2009 14:32 | Written by Allan Eastmond |
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Well I have given in and bought an Acer Aspire One D250 netbook. And it's a red one too.
 And yes, I had to pay the Microsoft tax to get the operating system I DON'T want (XP Home). So I promptly downloaded Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix Edition. gparted'd my drive and installed it - WOW! The Mutter window manager is good - especially for netbooks. It's a pity some of the applications windows don't always fit the 1024x600 screen: eg, Easytag, some parts of Thunderbird 2. But overall I'm impressed. Every bit of hardware works except the front wireless LED/switch (The wireless works out of the box - you just can't switch it off with the front hardware switch - very minor).This netbook is an excellent buy and once coupled with the Ubuntu Linux 9.10 Netbook Remix, it's Fabulous! Freedom IT can supply you with these and install Ubuntu to boot. Contact us today. Ubuntu 9.04 on my Dell Latitude D600
Tuesday, 09 June 2009 23:32 | Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 June 2009 10:38 | Written by Allan Eastmond |
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I have been resisting upgrading Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on my Dell Latitdue D600 because I had tried 8.10 and compiz did NOT work well at all - VERY slow. So with much Under Section 'Device': Option "AccelMethod" "XAA" Under Section 'Screen': Depth 24 Voila! Compiz, in all it's glory, works very acceptably on my Dell Latitude D600 laptop running under Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty Jackalope'. FANTASTIC.I am stoked! From the "Things that make you go Hmmm" Dept.
Thursday, 26 February 2009 12:21 | Last Updated on Thursday, 12 March 2009 19:51 | Written by Allan Eastmond |
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I found this very interesting article regarding the use of the command line interface (CLI) to teach new computer users rather than a GUI (mouse and windows and desktops and stuff). I have often thought the CLI is a more consistent interface, whereas a GUI tends to change often (across versions, applications, etc). |
trepidation I upgraded to 9.04 last weekend to see if the video/X11 side of the latest release of Ubuntu was any better at handling my aging ,but still very capable, Dell laptop(affectionally called dellboy). Things didn't look so hot at first but I just ran with the not-compiz settings until having a look tonight. Trying all sorts of AddRGBGLXVisuals and other, non-relevant, NVIDIA-chipset-only, options to xorg.conf resulted in no change - wobbly windows would appear but no window decorator and an unusable, completely white gnome-terminal. Then I remembered a couple of things I had seen mentioned elsewhere: 1. For some chipsets (Intel & now ATI): the default EXA acceleration doesn't work or is unacceptably slow. For ATI, trying the older XAA works marvels. For Intel chipsets try the latest UXA acceleration method. And 2. The last time I tried with 8.10 I needed to increase the colour depth to 24. Well, I inserted both the following into /etc/X11/xorg.conf: