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Monthly Archives: October 2008

Blogging software for KDE

If your blogging on kde there are various blogging clients around. I have a wordpress blog which is pretty standard like.. Any way on kde 3.5.x we have blokkal and kblogger. Blokkal isnt in the repositories so you have to download the deb file and install. Now its a quite nice program to use very [...]

Kde 4 usefull apt repo’s

Im just getting all the apps required for intrepid here is my extra apt repositories so far.. ##amarok 2 beta deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu intrepid main ## flash and w32codecs deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ intrepid free non-free ##smb4k for kde deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/paulo-miguel-dias/ubuntu intrepid main apt-get install smb4k smbfs (for smb4k) apt-get install amarok-kde4 (for amarok 2) apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree [...]

a mad weekend of linux installs!

Ive just had a crazy weekend installing various flavours of linux and various machines and platforms! I started testing kubuntu 8.4 on i386 and started adding kde 4 which didnt go to bad bt then realised 8.0.4.1 was available! with kde 4 added like a remix version! That seemed better but then fell across the [...]

Ebay postage rules

I think ebay should put some rules in regarding postage, you get these greedy bastards who put items on cheap and load up the postage. I ordered a GTA stratergey guide for my lad of ebay of my_little_alice now the book was a quid so i thought what he hell i noticed the P&P was [...]

Asus 701SD wireless problems

If your having problems getting the wireless workimg on your new 701SD With ubuntu / kubuntu on either intrepid or hardy this is the solution! Trust me it took me a day to figure this out! First get a console and add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list (as root) deb http://www.array.org/ubuntu hardy-proposed eeepc save and do [...]

Xandros on the asus

I had my first look at xandros on the asus the other day and was basically shocked by how crap it comes out of the box! I remember getting my first asus switching it on looking at xandros and then connecting a USB cd rom and installing kubuntu 2 minutes after! Well i was looking [...]