Month: October 2008

  • Media Center ATI Radeon HD 3650 PCIex16 Video Card

    I have a problem with this card. I bought it on September 3rd and I upgraded to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex or Ubuntu 8.10 and I could get nothing on the login screen. I am wanting to return this and get a refund as I have a 1 year warranty on it from Diamond Multimedia. It…

  • Happy Hallowe’en

    Today is Hallowe’en and I love candy so I will most likely be eating most of the candy that I have for the trick or treaters, which is good for me and sad for them. So To everyone have a Happy Hallowe’en and eat your candy before the munchkins get it or just leave out…

  • Ubuntu 8.10 Has Been Released

    Another wonderful day has come, not only that Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex has been released! I have been running Ubuntu 8.10 since the Alpha 5 came out. So People must be wondering what it has in it that makes it so wonderful: The Graphical User Interface (GUI) that I have chosen to use as my…

  • Deluge-Torrent 1.0.3

    Deluge the bit torrent download application is great and very usable. I have used it in other ubuntu versions when it was bundled with it. I really love this application and I believe that it downloads faster then most of the other bit torrent applications. I just installed this one to see how it looks.…

  • Christmas Shopping

    I have started Christmas shopping today and the first person that I have spent money on was my Dad. I cannot say what I bought him though because he might read my blog. Ryan Orser.

  • How to get WP-SuperCache Working

    This is a step by step how-to to get wp-supercache enabled. This is my source: http://www.lavluda.com/2007/07/15/how-to-enable-mod_rewrite-in-apache22-debian/ First you need to get apache1.3 of higher installed. I have apache2. Type this command in Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install apache2 Now that you have apache2 put this command in the terminal: updatedb locate mod_rewrite.so This will update the…

  • (Update) VLC 0.9.4 is out

    Built into the repositories the new VLC 0.9.4 is out and if you have VLC in Intrepid already and you are up to date then you already have it. For other distros I do not know if you have been updated. If you have been updated and are on another distribution other then Ubuntu Intrepid…

  • Pidgin 2.5.1 (GNOME)

    Hello Everyone! I saw the polls results since putting it up yesterday at 9:00 AM PDT and I have decided to write an application review of Pidgin 2.5.1. I am not reviewing it because of the poll stats with GNOME leading with 4 votes at the time of writing this, but because I really love…

  • So Far in The Polls

    Ok, So when I looked at the epoll stats people want me to write more about applications that I have used in Linux and not so much about distributions that I have used. So I am putting out another epoll today about which of the following Desktop Environments should I have the applications from: KDE…

  • Less Then a Week Until 8.10 RC

    Yes there is less then a week left until the 8.10 Release Candidate comes out. Yesterday the Main was frozen and will probably not become unfrozen until the release is out. I am still using Ubuntu 8.10 Beta and have now had a few problems with packages: The Network-Manager will sometimes not display wireless access…