I toyed with upgrading my Kubuntu Gutsy (7.10) to Hardy (8.04) but came to the conclusion that a fresh install would do me the world of good. My Gutsy had KDE4 bolted on to it with some KDE4 apps and various other junk installed so, yeah, time to start afresh.
This is my current desktop:
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I haven’t actually programmed my own personal Terminator robot (as yet) in MINDSTORMS but I did hit a potential flaw in my plans.
LDD
LDD is LEGO Digital Designer. This is the Windows only application that many creators use to virtually create their model so that it can be uploaded to the LEGO web site. This application [...]
Way back when I were a lad, the cool toy to have was LEGO MINDSTORMS (the robot building kit made by LEGO). But at about £200 it was a bit out of my price range. As I got older and had the money to buy it there was a new version due out, LEGO MINDSTORMS [...]
Ok so I can’t write to it but at least I can now view my Google Calendar in Thunderbird.
I installed Thunderbird2 from the Gutsy repo and that’s fine. But you try installing the Lightning 0.7 add-on. Won’t go. Apparently it’s because they are compiled by different sources. So I’ve had to make do with Lightning [...]
This post is rather unique in that it is being written using SeaMonkey and within Puppy Linux. PupEEE to be exact, a customised version of Puppy 3 for the ASUS EEE.
The one problem with most distro’s on the EEE is getting the Wifi working, pupEEE made it dead easy. Opened the Network Wizard and it [...]
After posting my ‘KDE4 is dying’ sob story on the Kubuntu mailing list, I was advised to rename my hidden .kde4 directory then try logging in with KDE4. But just after reading the above solution I saw that KDE 4.0.1 would be released soon.
Sure enough, KDE 4.0.1 was released yesterday (Wed, 6th Feb) and I [...]
*sob*
I’m have no luck at all this week end.
First was my KDE4 debacle and now an argument with Google Calendar!
I read a nice tutorial which was about getting Google Calendar working in Thunderbird.
‘That’d be handy’, says I.
Downloads the Lightning add-on for Thunderbird, which gives it a built in calendar, then downloaded the Provider add-on which [...]
Continue reading about Google Calendar, why do you hate me so?!
There’s a definite lack of pizazz in my desktop this morning. Why? Because it’s KDE3.5.8
I decided to run Adept to see if there were any new updates to KDE4 (since there’s no funky little reminder thing in the taskbar) and there were a couple of bits so I did my bit and updated everything.
KDE4 reported [...]
I’m not proud of what I’ve done. Not proud at all…
I bought an iPod *sob*
Forgive me! I was tempted by value for money! No seriously it was! 80Gb Black iPod Classic for £160 from OverclockersUK.
The only snag is that it’s 6th Generation and 6G is where Apple altered the iPod’s to only work with iTunes. [...]
Well, i’ve been using KDE4 now for two whole days and i’ve been noticing some ‘quirks’ which i’m not too keen on.
Why is it so difficult to create a new folder? I right click in Dolphin/Konqueror and choose Create New from the menu and… no, there’s no New Folder option. Ok, what about the File [...]
