[edit: With a new release of Java 8 for ARM by Oracle, performance can be radically improved – see the post on Bionoren.com – and thanks for telling me about it in the comments, Brad!] [edit: I’ve updated a few commands that I didn’t get quite right initially, and then a new Linux image for the Raspberry […]
While Android is based on a Linux kernel, lots of the best tools for syncing phones don’t run on the Linux desktop – for my Galaxy S II, Kies Air from Samsung is the default, won’t work. Winamp won’t work, DoubleTwist won’t work… I want to be able to sync up my phone with my […]
Today a shiny new toy arrived in the post for me – a Samsung Galaxy S II. High on my priority list was transferring my music across to the phone. My N900 was very easy to sync – some how I’d got into using Songbird a long time ago, but I don’t use it much […]
When you’re writing an essay with a word count to meet, how your word processor counts the words matters. LibreOffice seems to count a lot higher than MS Word, meaning your task at meeting the word count is much harder. This is probably because of the way it treats ‘floating punctuation marks’ like a dash […]
The Elementary theme I have on Ubuntu is beautiful. I now have the right scrollbars on Chromium and I wondered when I’d get OpenOffice fixed. A little google-fu and the inbuilt translator of Chromium dug up a post on Argentinan site Soft-Libre. The solution is really simple, but messes up the theme. DanRabbit is correct […]
I installed Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) ages ago but never got round to using the restricted drivers. Well, it just worked OK, so I figured leave it. Today I tried them – installation was fine, no problem, and moving the two screens around in the Monitors tool worked fine, except I ended up with the […]
The first beta for the latest Ubuntu is out, so I’m running it already. Aside from the strange window controls, it seems good so far. One of my first tasks was to make my gorgeous Logitech MX Revolution mouse work properly. Out of the box is… almost, just one little thing to solve – the […]