Posted on September 21, 2009 by symbolik
I have upgraded all my systems to KDE 4.3.1 very successfully, and it is gorgeous. While still slower than LXDE (this will likely always be the case), it is much better than the 4.2 that shipped with Jaunty. I have also upgraded to OpenOffice 3.1.1, the latest stable Wine, and I have updated Xorg as [...]
Filed under: Desktops, HowTo, KDE, Kubuntu, Linux, OpenOffice, Xorg | Tagged: HowTo, KDE, KDE 4, Kubuntu, OpenOffice, OpenOffice 3.1.1, PPA, WINE, Xorg | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 18, 2009 by symbolik
How to get sound working with Kubuntu 9.04 64-bit and the Adobe Flash player.
Filed under: Desktops, Hardware, KDE, Kubuntu, Tips… | Tagged: 64-bit, Adobe, Flash, non-free, padevchooser, plugin, Pulse, restri, restricted, sound, YouTube | 2 Comments »
Posted on May 10, 2009 by symbolik
I started last night. First, I decided to use the 32-bit LiveCD installer. I booted off the CD after shutting down Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, and soon was at the GUI (I chose the first option; to test before installing). Once there, i opened up a konsole session, ran “sudo -i” to get root, [...]
Filed under: File Systems, Hardware, KDE, Kubuntu, Microsoft, Security, Smartcard, Vista, Xorg | Tagged: AKO, Atheros, CAC, coolkey, defrag, defragment, DoD, DVD, Home Premium, java, no zap, partition, rebuild, resize, restricted, skype, Thunderbird, TTF, Vista, webcam, wireless, XFS, Xorg | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 5, 2009 by symbolik
I tried to connect my media computer to my wireless network and failed. I ended up running a wired connection to it and searching online for an answer. There is a lot of stuff out there regarding problems with the KNetwork Manager app being brain-dead with wireless. I did some checking and [...]
Filed under: Hardware, KDE, Kubuntu, wireless | Tagged: AirForce One 54g, b43, bcm, BCM 4318, Broadcom, KNetworkManager | 9 Comments »
Posted on May 2, 2009 by symbolik
So far, RAID-10/LVM/XFS is working quite well with Kubuntu 9.04. Jaunty picks up hardware effortlessly. I plugged in a USB thumb drive, and a little notification pops up.
Ok.
I plug in my camera, and it sees it fine,no muss, no fuss.
Better.
I plug in my webcam – no notification, it just works.
Sweeeet.
I plug in my HP printer, [...]
Filed under: Apps, Desktops, Distros, File Systems, Hardware, KDE, KVM, Kubuntu, Linux, Microsoft, Open-Source, RAID and LVM, VMWare | Tagged: VMware-Server, Jaunty | 2 Comments »
Posted on May 1, 2009 by symbolik
Building a high-performance, yet fault-tolerant RAID system on 64-bit Kubuntu (Jaunty Jackalope). I hope…
Filed under: Desktops, Distros, File Systems, Hardware, HowTo, KDE, Kernel, Kubuntu, Linux, Open-Source, RAID and LVM, VMWare | Tagged: 2.6.28, 64-bit, 9.04, alternate install CD, Jaunty Jackalope, KDE 4.2.2, LILO, LVM2, power supply, RAID-1, RAID-10, SATA, XFS | 2 Comments »
Posted on March 3, 2008 by symbolik
I have been playing around with XFCE4 on Kubuntu for a couple weeks now. I have looked at some config files, tried a little theming (very little), and basically poked around some of the config util GUIs. It is quite fast to start up, and most functions are available that I had in KDE (konsole [...]
Filed under: Desktops, Distros, KDE, Kubuntu, XFCE | Tagged: KDE, XFCE | 1 Comment »