a day in the life of wayne ward….

The PS3 dist upgrade went smooth now runs jaunty

Still has problems with network manager I see – about a hour and a half for the full dist upgrade – nice and smooth

Just removed vista from a dell inspiron 1525 and installed ubuntu’s new offering jaunty I used the 64 bit version which took 30 mins to download the ISO rapid servers! The install was a breeze after answering around 5 questions it was away! It ate the install around 15 minustes later I was logging on!  I tested all the usual things wireless – sound – webcam – video all just worked straight out of the box no messing!! I played a mp3 with rhythmnbox and it went off and got the required codecs! I went into synaptic and installed java plugin and flash plugin and amsn.

This has give this laptop a new lease of life my mate complained it was slow out of the box with vista – well this has 64 bit linux power and now its powerful

If your looking for a decent laptop around the £300 mark get a dell inspiron 1525 – you can walk into currys and buy them of the shelf!! fire jaunty on it and your away.

10 / 10

 Very interesting meeting talked about window various window managers and had a great demo of andy a 3D virtual tour he built using java script. Then we set of down to the bobbin to catch a band but they all finished! (at 10 oclock!!??) anyway we moved onto the penny bank and caught the blues band in there which were pretty darn poor and then finished up the night in hustle!! Great meeting

Due to the increase in demand in the day in the life fan club we have a new batch of T shirts and mugs coming in!! so if you want your saving please drop us a email – the popularity of this site has expanded big time

I will continue to help linux and mac users with all the tips I can!!!

I know i can post some hurtful items and im sorry if I hurt your feelings but I just post the truth and facts – so if you think your are being blogged about read into more and try and look at the big picture – how can I help you anymore than that?

Also if you havent alreadt got jaunty get it downloaded it rocks!! Ubuntu linux has come a long way with this version – fast boot – very tight and polished operating system – my dist upgrade was a breeze from intrepid ibex – around a hour

The lancaster linux user group is going strong – we have a meeting the first wednesday of every month in the brtittania in lancaster – if your interested in linux – mac osx – html – developing etc then feel free to come along!!

It doesnt matter if your new to linux or just wanting to find out more information. Please feel free to join the mailing list or drop me a email if your interested

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I downloaded the new jaunty image from ubuntu’s site – I then installed usb-imagewriter wchich writes the image file to a USB key as netbooks dont have a cdrom no need to hook a external cd reader just install straight from the USB key!! wonder if you can do this with windows!! duh!.. anyway booted of the key and the install was a breeze around 5 questions and away we go! 15 minutes laster i had rebooted into the new shiny ubunty jaunty!! all the screen sizes correct during the install which has always been a bit of a problem! Well this was the fastest boot ive ever seen faster than windows 7 defo!! Logged onto the acer aspire – everything works no issues at all!! sorted!

Now on the asus i noticed it was a tad jerky so after a search i found there is a bug which will be fixed by doing a update during the install soon but for now download these two files:

http://people.ubuntu.com/~apw/lp349314-jaunty/linux-headers-2.6.28-11-generic_2.6.28-11.43~lp349314apw5_i386.deb

http://people.ubuntu.com/~apw/lp349314-jaunty/linux-image-2.6.28-11-generic_2.6.28-11.43~lp349314apw5_i386.deb

move into the directory you have them in install them from a terminal typing

sudo dpkg -i *  (as long as there is only these two packages in this directory!)

after the packages install reboot and your away no more problems.

I like the feature of swapping between netbook desktop or classic

Ubuntu is really going for it now

Just installed call of duty 4 on the macbook

The price was very reasonable and delivery was fast – amazon has loads of macintosh games including all the sims2 collection!!

The install was just a breeze and the game runs awsome – ive never seen a game run so smooth !!!!

So if some one tells says "you cant play games on a mac or linux"

A total load of crap!!!

Gaming on the mac and linux is the next step and is happening big now

GAME ON!!!

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Newhas been released this week

You can download x86 and 64 bit versions PLUS also we now have a new netbook edition which is handy for the new netbooks with smaller screens!!

Or in my case im just doing a dist upgrade - linux life is so simple

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I got a 3Com OfficeConnect Gigabit VPN Firewall delivered to site today – nice little hardware firewall. Nice interface – nice price – ideal for a small office

Plugged in configured connected the computers – worked fine for ten minutes or so …

Then pop and a nice smell of fire!! yes we had mad the firewall into a doorstop?! No idea why – but a quick call to 3com and we should have a new one delivered in around two days so not so bad …..  lets see..

My clients call it the wall of fire – nice and appropriate name id say!!

4 port – wlan port – and two DMZ sockets pretty darn cool for around the £160 mark