Ubuntu 9.04 – Tall Tech Tales

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Prism and Web Apps

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on September 12, 2009November 3, 2016

For decades, applications and their use have been limited to computers and their specific operating systems. We as users have been used to going about our computing needs using a variety of applications. For word processing, MS Word has been the main contender. For spreadsheets, accounting, tables, graphs and all kinds of other calculating needs, […]

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Hulu Desktop – Expanding Online Media

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on May 30, 2009November 3, 2016

When Hulu launched its services, I was an instant fan. Finally, I thought, a way to watch some of the shows that I’ve missed on TV or just other shows I might not normally watch and I can do it on my computer! Of course, for me, this all played into a greater scheme of […]

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Ubuntu 9.04 on XPS 1530

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on May 9, 2009November 3, 2016

Having installed Ubuntu 9.04 from scratch onto my Dell XPS 1530, the question that first came to mind was if anything is different and works better? I remember I had some minor but very irritating bugs when I first installed 8.04 on this same computer. So, let’s do a quick overview of some of the […]

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Liberated from Windows!

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on May 8, 2009November 3, 2016

This last year, I have progressively been moving away from Windows and I have embraced Ubuntu. I’ve been stuck with Windows for many reasons, specifically because some things I just can’t do on Ubuntu yet. This past week, I finally started experimenting with VirtualBox and I’ve discovered salvation from the Windows empire…or at least something […]

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Jaunty Notifications for Thunderbird

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on April 29, 2009November 3, 2016

So far, Jaunty is working pretty good and I haven’t run into any potential problems yet. I’m still investigating to see if some of the problems I had with 8.10 have been resolved or not and the verdict is still out on that. However, one cool thing I really like with Jaunty is the new […]

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Ubuntu 9.04 Upgraded on XPS 1530

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on April 27, 2009November 3, 2016

Friday night, after letting all downloads finish during the day Friday, my upgrade from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 was finally complete. It worked out without any problems at all, which is more than I can say for 8.10. Now what? Well, so far everything seems to work. I’m just curious if what didn’t before works […]

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Jaunty Jackalope Release!

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on April 24, 2009November 3, 2016

Ubuntu 9.04, AKA Jaunty Jackalope, is out! I had initially decided to hold off a bit before upgrading but after reading some initial very positive reviews I figured that what the heck, let’s go for it. Having said that, my laptop, a Dell XPS 1530 is now upgrading. I will of course post any issues […]

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Use sudo without Password

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on March 7, 2009November 3, 2016

Those of you that use Ubuntu with any regularity might have run into the very annoying instance of always having to enter the root password when running certain commands with sudo. For me, I use a LAMPP server on my computer to test scripts and such locally and I installed the LAMPP control panel, a […]