Wishlist and other rants

So this evening I was updating my task list, and decided to start working on a “wishlist” of applications or hacks I would like to see in Ubuntu/linux/Gnome….
The reason I did this is I really would like to learn python and if I can give myself some applications to look at and try to decipher [...]

Thunderbird

So  a quick Thunderbird how-to. I finally got it running the way I think it should. The one thing that is missing is a sync to hiveminder or another online todo list. So to install Thunderbird you do a ‘ sudo aptitude install thunderbird -y ‘
Then to add the needed extensions, click on tools and [...]

Flock

Flock is an open source web browser based on Mozilla Firefox. The installation is really quite easy, donwload the tarred file from http://www.flock.com/ (remember where it was saved)
Untar the file
‘ tar -xzvf flock-1.1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz ‘
It will create a folder named ‘ flock ‘
cd flock
Then to run just ./flock
Login to Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Gmail and check [...]

weechat-curses

weechat-curses is the IRC client that I am currently using. to install ‘ sudo aptitude install weechat -y -r ‘ I add the -y and -r tags to automatically say yes to install and also to install the recommended files (weechat-curses, weechat-plugins, etc).
To run weechat you need to open the terminal and then type in [...]

Beginnings

Where to begin….
I am hoping to use this to document my work in Ubuntu. Focusing mainly on how-to’s. I will try to keep everything at a “beginners” level.
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