Despite every ounce of intuition in your body screaming "No, no, no, no, don't do it!", you did it anyway. You just had to click "that" button. The one that should have been big and red and marked "SELF DESTRUCT". And now your computer's buggered. Isn't it lovely to have intuition give you it's best gut wrenching "I told you so!" gloat. Welcome to the (almost) definitive guide to getting your desktop back Whether you have a black screen, a flashing screen, just can't get past the login screen or you're stuck in the command-line, you're about to learn a few tricks that will help you get … [Read more...]
Kubuntu 11.10 – A Very Early Review
July 28, 2011 by 18 Comments
Is Ocelot ready to pounce? Or is it all oneiric? In the twilight hours of this morning, I thought I'd take a look at the new Kubuntu 11.10, codenamed "Oneiric Ocelot". Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time, in my half-awake non-caffeinated state. Knowing how much you all dislike Ubuntu Unity and how many of you might be considering a change to Kubuntu, I thought you might like a non-technical peek review of Oneiric. I downloaded the 32bit iso from Ubuntu, created a virtual machine in VirtualBox, loaded the iso and booted the machine. Within a couple of seconds I was looking at … [Read more...]
Install FUSE into Ubuntu the Easy Way – Use a Script
July 26, 2011 by 1 Comment
Manic Miner on Fuse Making friendly suggestions on a forum is not always a good idea: you never know where it's going to lead. When I saw a request for feature ideas for upcoming versions of FUSE, the Spectrum emulator, posted on the World of Spectrum website little did I know that one simple comment asking for FUSE to be made easier to install into Ubuntu would lead me to write an installer script. When someone on the forum wrote "hint, hint, hint: man bash. you really can contribute that bash one-liner to FUSE then. %-)" in reply to my writing "[as] much as I'd like to give FUSE more … [Read more...]
OMG! Unity is Horrible! What Do I Do?
April 18, 2011 by 6 Comments
If the search terms that have been bringing visitors to my first review of Ubuntu 11.04 are to be used as a measure of what people think of Natty then I would be understating when I say that not many Ubuntu users are happy with Ubuntu's new Unity Shell. Let me just say that a lot of people are doing a lot of cussing about Natty. Who can blame them. The taskbar is unmovable, the application menu is a mess and individual window menus are non existent. It just isn't an interface that people can... interface with. 11.04 is, well, natty. There are solutions The least obvious and easiest option … [Read more...]
Ubuntu 11.04 – What Have They Done?!
April 5, 2011 by 58 Comments
My imagination has been racing with ideas about how great Ubuntu 11.04 will be when finally released. Unable to contain my enthusiasm any longer I decided to download Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 1 and give it a whirl on my newly built AMD quad core PC. I am absolutely flabbergasted at how shit the new Natty distro is. I can see "natty" becoming a byword for "trash" and when it does "Natty by name, natty by nature." will be this distro's maxim. A long time user and proponent of Ubuntu and all things Linux and open source, I am well placed to say to anyone who intends to install Natty, "Stop! Curb your … [Read more...]
