Archives for the 'linux' Category
Thinking Rock 2 [El Canasto]
Ya está disponible la versión 2 de Thinking Rock, el software GTD para Windows, Mac y Linux. Hay un montón de mejoras y funcionalidades nuevas (51 para ser exacto) que puedes consultar en los Release Notes.
Original post here: Jeroen Sangers
Tripple booting made easy with Hardy Heron [Hack Your Day]
Tripple booting made easy with Hardy Heron
Now that the new Ubuntu release has come out tripple booting has become very easy. I am now trip booting XP, Vista abd Ubuntu. I have a multitude of reasons for having all three, I am making Ubuntu my full time OS as you know, but Vista still has [...]
Michael appears on Linux podcast, Fresh Ubuntu [Black Belt Productivity]
Yesterday, I was interviewed by Harlem Quijano and Peter Nikolaidis from the Fresh Ubuntu podcast. I have been a fan of Fresh Ubuntu for quite some time, and it was an honor for them to ask me to be on. We had a good time, and I got to give a brief overview of GTD [...]
Enabling cool desktop effects in Ubuntu [Hack Your Day]
Ubuntu 7.10 comes with the awesome Compiz meaning desktop on a cube, window animations and so on, but you may be at a loss since it doesn’t work. I actually managed to get it to work quite simply, despite the fact that many forums propose long terminal sessions and so on.
From a fresh Ubuntu install [...]
Tomboy - the productivity application for Linux [Hack Your Day]
Tomboy is a very simple application for Linux in principal, but its uses are extensive and you can build a note taking system as simply, as elaborately and as productively as you want. The basics of Tomboy is that it uses a Wiki like linking strategy, where specific words can be links.
For example, start a [...]
Command list for your Ubuntu terminal [Hack Your Day]
Today I was quite perplexed, as I could not unmount a drive in Ubuntu. The message was that I needed to be root to do it. No problem, you can either log in to your root user account (discouraged for security reasons), or you can use sudo.
Sudo is essentially a command for doing something with [...]
Making the Linux jump [Hack Your Day]
I just made the jump to Linux, partly planned and partly forced. After playing around with some disk partitioning I managed to completely loose the ability to boot into Windows, but luckily I had a Linux on an external drive. I decided to wipe my internal hard drive of Vista, I installed XP on a [...]
Organize IT Recap 02nd Sep 2007 [Organize IT]
Organize IT recap for 02nd September 2007
The guy behind Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, has been interviewed over at Lifehacker and covers such issues as productivity, email, free software etc.
Build your own office! I wish I had the time to do something like this. In fact I wished I worked in a place I could even dare [...]
Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04) Released [Organize IT]
Normally I don’t care for tech news and releases but I felt I had to mention about the latest release of Ubuntu Linux. I’ve given Hoary Hedgehog (5.04) and Dapper Drake (6.06) a try in the past and while I was impressed I still felt it wasn’t a fully polished package and combined with the [...]