Perspicuous as Mud

Living in a multi-computer world

January 12th, 2010 · No Comments

There used to be a time when we lived in one-car households and with just one TV set – for those younger than 40: really it’s true, we really did live like that.
Then the 80s came, and that all changed.

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Ubuntu Remix on Samsumg N310

January 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment

When I got my N310 I was determined that I would make a concerted effort to run Ubuntu on it.
I’ve tried a few times over the past couple of years to use Ubuntu, but I always hit a compatibility issue of some sort that takes longer than it should to fix, and have gone back [...]

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RSSOwl and Ubuntu

March 20th, 2009 · No Comments

There are plenty of RSS readers in the world to choose from, but I do find that RSSOwl does pretty much all I could ask for and looks good too.  All, that is, except work in Ubuntu (Intrepid version at least).
I’m kind of slowly testing the waters with Linux – I need it to do [...]

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