New Ubuntu Wallpaper
Sun, August 16th 2009 at 12:03am
Was just playing around in Photoshop and this wallpaper was the result. Just thought I would share.
Ubuntu at Night 1920x1200 Wallpaper
Denim Wallpaper
Thu, July 19th 2007 at 01:18am
Recently Vladstudio released a great new wallpaper and tutorial. The new wallpaper uses denim textures to make a really interesting looking effect on screen. I liked it so much I decided to take a shot at the tutorial. The follow are my results.
After following most of the steps in the tutorial, and improvising a little, I came up with something I was pretty happy with. I decided to take a slightly more clean cut and artificial look that Vlad did. That clean look basically means no stitches for now.
Obviously these wallpapers are a lot more simplistic that the Vlads, but I actually like the simplistic look and just enjoy the texture of the denim on screen.
Anyway, hope some of you enjoy it. (Note: Read the entire post to see the attachments).
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Compiz Fusion
Sun, June 24th 2007 at 11:15pm
The follow video just really got me excited about trying out the new Compiz Fusion project. It really looks amazing.
I especially like the new ability to group windows together, and flip them around like each window is on the back the other. The Linux desktop is really coming into it’s own right now, if only it could get better application support!
Now that I have a bunch of Adobe products installed on my main system Linux has pretty much dropped out as an option for me. When you do not rely on a specific set of applications to do your everyday work it’s a lot easier to pick and choose OS’s.
That being said I still love to use Linux and I am planning on buying a laptop very soon mainly so that I can have a Linux system again. Then I can use my desktop for work related stuff, and use my laptop for everything else.
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Intel P965 Motherboard and Ubuntu Part3
Mon, September 18th 2006 at 12:13pm
* UPDATE 9/18/2006 6PM: I am downloading a Kernel update in Dapper right now, hopefully it contains the JMicron patch.
Here is a new update on the continuing struggle to get Linux running on an Intel P965 motherboard with the JMicron PATA controller.
There have been two more patches commited to fix the problem. The main patch has been added to Edgy Eft which should allow the user to access their PATA drives connected to the JMicron chip. A similar patch has also been applied to the Dapper Kernel so it should now be possible to create a custom Ubuntu install cd with the new updated Dapper cd and install from there.
Hopefully this also means that Ubuntu will have support out of the box with the next release.
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Ubuntu Patch for P965 Motherboards
Tue, September 12th 2006 at 12:25am
Looks like a patch has been commited to the Ubuntu development branch. This is good news because it atleast means that we should be able to install Ubuntu Linux 6.10 when it is released on a P965 based motherboard with the JMicron chip.
Also if this Kernel gets backported to the Dapper branch then we maybe able to create a custom install cd with the new kernel, and any other custom packages you may want. Then get dapper running on the new system.
If you are one of the few people who went to all the trouble of using one of the work arounds to get Ubuntu Dapper running on your P965 motherboard, then you should be able to use a backported kernel to support it.
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Core 2 Duo and Linux
Sat, September 9th 2006 at 02:01am
* UPDATE 9/18/06: Patches for Edgy and Dapper released
* UPDATE 9/11/06: There is now a patch for Ubuntu Edgy Eft
Ever since the Core 2 Duo was announced I have been planning on building a new system around it and then using Linux as my main system on it. That however is proving to be a bit harder to do that I would have liked.
I was starting to think that Linux was over the hump when it came to basic hardware compatibility. Even it the main distros did not support all your obscure hardware like USB webcams, or TV tuner cards, you could pretty much install Linux on any system you got. However with the new Core 2 Duo systems that has changed.
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Upstart Ready for Edgy Eft
Mon, September 4th 2006 at 03:20am
On Friday Scott James announced that Upstart is now ready to replace sysvinit. Recently when I gave my first impressions of Upstart, I was a little worried that this system could not be ready for Edgy next month. After reading this update though I feel more confident that the Ubuntu team can pull it together and get it working for the 6.10 release.
It now seems that they have all the basic functionality in place to make a full replacement of sysvinit. With my initial review I was a little concerned when I realized you could not easily shut down or restart your system using Upstart. Now that have that functionality the system really does look like it will be ready for the release of 6.10.
Personally I can not wait, I like change it gives you something to look forward too. Far too many Linux distros are stagnating recently, just release updates to programs that have been around for many years. That stability is great for servers, but for desktop systems they thrive on change. Sometimes it is good to shake things up a little.
*Update 9/12/2006: Fixed a silly typo where I said upstart “is not ready” when I meant to say upstart “is now ready.” Big difference. 
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Upstart First Impressions
Thu, August 31st 2006 at 12:49am
*UPDATE: 9/3/2006 It seems that Upstart will be ready for Edgy.
Upstart is a new boot loader that is in development that could be a potential replacement for sysvinit. The program is basically in charge of starting up all the programs you need when you start your machine to make it do anything useful. This program is quite important because it is a major factor in determining how long your computer takes to boot.
I first heard about Upstart a few days ago. It is being developed by some of the developers at Canonical Limited, the company behind Ubuntu, and is looking like a good system. You can read in more detail about how Upstart works when compared to other systems, but basically it differs from the others in that it uses an Event Driven model to boot the system rather than a liner system.
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Parallels 2.2BETA on Ubuntu
Mon, August 28th 2006 at 11:54pm
Recently there has been a lot of buzz around virtualization of operating systems. In the past I have never really seen the point of virtualization for myself, but after listening to a few podcasts on the subject and reading quite a lot of information about it on the web, this technology is looking more useful all the time. It can be used for anything from running Windows apps in Linux, having a secure sand box operating system to test out new software, to trying out new operating systems before installing them.
So the first thing I wanted to do was download one of the popular virtualization packages and give it a spin. There appear to be two main products out there at the moment, VMWare and Parallels. VMWare is the grand-daddy of them all, and has been around forever, and Parallels is the relatively new kid on the block. Parallels has been getting a lot of press recently with it’s Mac line of products so I thought I would start with that and see how it performs in Linux.
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