During the past year – working at AdoMado, I’ve seen myself & our developers wasting a lot of time in maintaining their own dev machines. Package install/upgrade/dependency failures, OS upgrade failures, hard drives failures, the machine not being available physically (in case of laptops), etc – are just a few cases. Can there be a more [...]
Yep! I’m running Karmic Koala
The much awaited Karmic Koala beta is due today from Ubuntu team… With a ton of new features – and as always, the bleeding edge of the Linux world, I just can’t wait to test it out. These features include Gnome 2.28 Software Center (replacing the old Add/Remove) Ubuntu One file sharing service Kernel 2.6.31 [...]
Very recently, I upgraded from Ubuntu Intrepid to Ubuntu Jaunty – and to my horror, the system went very slow! I wasn’t sure what was causing the problem but Xorg reported near 100% CPU utilization in “top” output, Firefox felt very very heavy, flash videos on youtube were choppy and slow – even Gedit felt [...]
Firefox is agreeably slower than most other browsers (specially Google Chrome) – even on my Ubuntu. Here is a great tip – after deploying which, I did felt the response time for cold startup and the UrlBar get better. And here are the results… for file in `ls *.sqlite` do ls -lh $file sqlite3 $file [...]
I’m nothing short of saying – “Holy cows”!! Check this why… If you noticed, thats Ubuntu 8.04 – Hardy Heron running on top of my Windows XP!!! Click on the image to see a bigger screenshot. All thanks to Ubuntu Portable So what does this means now? I get to use apt-get and install a [...]