Ubuntu is one of those polarising technologies; Its really easy to use on a recreational basis, or as part of a institution/business wide rollout, but heartbreakingly awkward to use ‘alone’ within an entrenched business setting.
July, 2010
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Jul 10
Citrix Web Client with Ubuntu
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Jul 10
Stuff I’ve found interesting in the past month – 23/07/2010
- Google Doc Mount Puts Your Google Docs in Nautilus for Editing [Downloads]
- Google PhD Fellowships go international
- Use Chrome like a pro
- Android Development 101 – Part 1:Hello World
- Rachel Maddow’s Blonde Yearbook Picture [Most Likely To Succeed]
- App Inventor for Android
- MultiBootISOs Boots Multiple Operating Systems from a USB Drive [Downloads]
- MultiBootISOs Boots Multiple Operating Systems from a USB Drive [Downloads]
- Geocron lets Latitude automate your life, or at least your wife
- Android App Inventor lets you be the developer (video)
- Top 10 USB Thumb Drive Tricks [Lifehacker Top 10]
- Groovy For Domain-Specific Languages
- Einztein Knowledge Network Catalogs Virtual Courses from Around the Web [Learning]
- Increase the Frequency Gmail Checks Your Other Email Accounts for New Mail [Gmail Tip]
- Follow Team HTC-Columbia on Google Maps
- Finding Open Source Projects Looking For Help?
- Get Things Done at a Coffee Shop Without Annoying Everyone [Work From Anywhere]
- The Guide to Neuroscience for Social Engineers
- Unusual, Obscure, and Useful Linux Distros
- NeighborGoods is a Location-Based Lending and Borrowing Network [Web Utilities]
- Well, thats my monday afternoon sorted… I’ve been looking for just this sort of tool for weeks; drop in an ISO and it’ll work! Love it!
- Recently bought a new pendrive (after not having one for about 3 years) so these tools will definitely be useful!
- Very intriguing use of live public telemetry!
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Jul 10
Intel 4965: Poor wireless performance under Ubuntu
I had an incident recently where the Windows 7 side of my laptop connected easily to an open AP, but the Ubuntu 10.04 (or 9.04, tried both) wouldn’t, with the Intel Iwlagn drivers reporting in syslog a deauth (reason=6), basically the card spoke too soon. I eventually found the solution.
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Jul 10
Belfast Hackerspace Anyone?
Contrary to popular belief, the concept of a ‘hacker‘ (or at least self described ones) has very little to do with coding and networking wizards pounding through systems and stealing valuable information or just destroying everything they touch. In fact, Google (and Princeton University’s) first definition of the word has more to do with Golf than security (try it by googling “define:hacker”).
The so called ‘hacker subculture’ is usually taken as a group of not necessarily like minded, but creative individuals with or without technical or theoretical skill, including artists, musicians, carpenters, machinists, or extreme knitters, and can generally be shortened down to ‘tinker-ers’ or ‘messers’. Continue reading →