It seems that Canonical are attempting to raise some money by inserting affiliate links into your Unity Dash when you type in a search term. Currently the main target for these links is Amazon, but I’m sure others will be …
Read moreEnd of life for Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)
Today I turned on my computers at home and at work to be presented with an alert telling me that the operating system on them, Ubuntu 10.10 “Maverick Meerkat”, has reached its end of life. This event has reminded me …
Read moreAnd with that news I shed a tear
As I come to the end of another day wrestling with code in an effort to get it to run in Internet Explorer 8, I find this post about some real world statistics from a large UK healthcare site. Internet …
Read moreJoe Consumer has the Same Unity Problems as Me
The recent Ubuntu Developer Summit included a session on Canonical’s user testing of Unity and Ubuntu. Have a read of the results over on OMG! Ubuntu! Here’s my favourite bit from the introduction: Although a small number of testers are …
Read moreWhy I’ll be skipping Ubuntu 11.10
My normal desktop machine runs Ubuntu 10.10. I decided to skip 11.04 because the UI changes introduced were, quite simply, downright broken with my particular dual monitor setup. A few days ago version 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) was released, so I …
Read moreWill Lucid play havoc with the Dell Mini 10?
There has been a lot written about the change in position of the window controls in the alpha- and beta-releases of Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx. I haven’t really got much to add that’s not in this excellent post, and it’s …
Read moreDVD Menu Overkill
Previously in My Green Life… ‘I own a lot of DVD box sets…’ ‘…tediously animated DVD menus…’ ‘Worse still are those that drop you straight into a graphical “chapter selection” screen…’ Thank goodness I managed to jump out of the …
Read moreNonimation
No, it’s not a misspelling of “Nomination”. It’s just me wondering if the English language needs a new word. It’s common to see the word “decimate” being used in reference to a near-complete destruction. Dictionary pedants are quick to point …
Read moreMuseum? “Exhibit” or “Gallery” would be more honest
A few years ago I visited the Design Museum, just down from Tower Bridge in London. It was, as you might expect, a museum dedicated to design. It dealt largely with product design, though there was some content about architectural …
Read moreToday’s Life Lesson
If you find a Wagon Wheel at the back of your office drawer, with a Best Before date of 2003, despite it appearing to be perfectly fresh, under no circumstances should you actually try biting into it. Not only was …
Read more