iFolder Disappointment
March 14th, 2010
I’ve been trying to work with iFolder again lately and it seems that I will have to look for an alternative. It’s just not implemented in such a way as to be usable for me. One major problem is the Ubuntu packages. I connect to an iFolder 3.7.2 server but the only iFolder packages for [...]
ifolder transition
November 9th, 2009
Looks like the ifolder project is undergoing some sort of transition. Stay tuned for more. (This seems to happen regularly. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.)
R.I.P. Edward M. Kennedy
August 26th, 2009
“For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.”
iFolder Appliance
August 16th, 2009
For the past month or so, I’ve been playing with the ifolder appliance developed by Steve Shaw. It’s been working well. Now I want to see if I can get it running in a KVM instance. (I’ve also been using the ifolder client packages for Ubuntu made by Marcelo Shima.)
Ubuntu DVD burning problems
August 30th, 2008
I’ve been having problems burning DVDs with Ubuntu 8.04 (the AMD64 version) for the past couple of weeks. I found the “all_generic_ide” fix online which seems to have fixed the problem when burning data DVDs from Brasero, but I’m still having problems burning isos from Gnome. Ubuntu sees the DVD burner as “ATAPI: HL-DT-STDVD+-RW GSA-H31N, [...]
Be careful buying ebooks from Apress
June 1st, 2008
I was just trying to purchase “Pro Open Source Mail: Building an Enterprise Mail Solution” as an ebook from Apress. The price is quoted as $25 for the ebook but when I added it to my cart, I got a $34.99 charge. I looked at another book quoted at $20 for the ebook but when [...]
Google Gears: No 64-bit version?
May 24th, 2008
I’m disappointed to learn that “there are no plans for an official 64-bit version” of Google Gears. Makes it hard to use Google Gears with a 64-bit Linux. It’d also be nice if Google bothered to mention this in the system requirements, rather than burying the limitation in a discussion group. Update: apparently there are [...]
Ubuntu 8.04 Questions
May 11th, 2008
Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04 has been less smooth than I’d like, but I do like the improvements in the new release. The Canonical partner repository for Ubuntu 8.04 is empty, except for the Opera browser. Why have a repository that is not maintained? The vmware-server packages in the repository for Ubuntu 7.10 haven’t been kept [...]
Upgrading Ubuntu and Vmware
April 25th, 2008
I’m looking for the best way to upgrade my Ubuntu 7.10 desktop with Vmware Server to the latest version. I’ll try to update this post with what I find out and try. I’m currently running the AMD64 flavor of Ubuntu 7.10 and Vmware Server 1.04 that I hand installed because there were no packages available [...]