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I know which love the most but I have always have had a soft spot for the rubic cube. Now what a better mix than this a Lego robot controlled by a Nokia phone which solves a rubic cube.
I have only once managed to solve the 3×3×3 rubik cube let alone a 4×4×4. So this a wee bit of cheating getting the phone to solve but it quite cool to watch.
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… well at least make it so that your users can cross link to each others right away.
Google have just launched their own thing called buzz.google.com, some say it is the twitter/facebook killer, we will see. I do like the fact that it is integrated into my gmail, though I’m still waiting for it on the desktop but my iPhone can buzz already. I also like that I can “tag” my Buzz to a location and add pictures and from what I understand there is no 140 characters limit like …
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I have four issues with ubuntu, wireless, dual monitor, network and DVD. The DVD worked from start (6.04) but somehow stopped working after version 7.10. Wireless just works strait away in the newer versions. And it gets easier to set up my laptop to run with my 19″ screen attached to it. And for the life of me I can never get samba to work so that I can see my other PC running ubuntu, but only NFS will.
Ubuntu 9.04 : Update it without any problems but the boot time …
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I do love using Ubuntu and have done so since 6.04. It has clearly become better and easier to set up and play with over the years. Though the only thing I still fight with is the Nvidia graphic card and being able to share my files over the network. The Nvidia issue is not an issue on my set up any more, since 9.10 found my external monitor and didn’t complain as it used to, so I would call that solved :)
Though the network share is still an issue, …
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It is getting closer.
And I couldn’t wait so a couple weeks back I updated my other PC and it all fell over, yes yes I know don’t touch an Alpha if you don’t know what you are doing.
But today there might be some hope since I’m right now updating and it is downloading the new NVIDIA kernel as I type this.
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… lets you share your files with others.
Sync your files, share your work with others or work remotely, all with your Ubuntu (9.04) computers.
I have just signed up for the 2Gb free option, there is 10Gb which you have to pay for and it works great.
https://ubuntuone.com/
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… like burning, I was thinking when turned on my PC the other day.
Just got back from holidays, needed to backup the 300+ photos we took. So hit the power switch on the PC tower, and after a bit I was wondering why I did not hear the normal noises I hear when I turn on the PC. I then looked at the monitor saw that it just sat there displaying the BIOS doing nothing. So I hit the reset button and waited for it to boot again, only to …
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For 10 years or so I have been chatting and emailing with Mr. Owl. And every time there had been a change to meet up, something had come up and we didn’t make it.
But this time we finally made it and Mr. Owl made his way down to Copenhagen for a day touristing about.
The city hall in CPH.
Lucky the day was a Danish holiday and the weather was hot, hot and hot so all the local was either BBQ’ing in their back garden or on one off the many …
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Suspend works and I can be up and running in less than 12sec now !!!
Though suspend does work to some degree. When I come out of suspend if I had some programs running they tent to turn into memory eaters. Thunderbird really have a hard time to connect to the IMAP servers. FireFox eats memory and then freaks out the CPU and other bits are slower.
It does help close all the programs down before going into suspend mode, though after 2-3 of them ubuntu is just dead slow and only …
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wow I can now boot up just over a minute !!
Since 7.04 my boot time have been close to 1:45. But last night I installed 8.04 update strait to 8.10 and then to 9.04, after a clean format. And then I just could leave it be and upgrade my boot drive to ext4.
Haven’t installed everything yet, so I don’t know if that could slow it down, normally I don’t have anything runing upon start up. Got a wee problem with the graphic, got a line runing from screen 1 to …





