Stolen blog post

Hmmm. Seems like someone has reproduced one of my posts and passed it off as their own work.

The "author" clearly doesn't want to be contacted because you are not able to leave any comments and there are no contact details.

This blog post shamelessly copies - word-for-word - a 2007 post from this blog. If you are the owner of this blog, please contact me.

Regards

Warren

Ubuntu - Karmic Koala - So it begins...

If you enjoyed the journey to Jaunty Jackalope, you can follow Karmic Koala from the start.

Ubuntu Jaunty - Codec Helper is more helpful

This must be a recent change. Having just done a reinstall using Alpha 4, I noticed that the codec helper screen has been re-organised. This layout is much cleaner, clearer, and more helpful.

The previous incarnation (I can't find a screenshot of it now) provided a list of possible packages of which you had to install one or more. The whole thing wasn't as clear as it could be.

This is much better.

Ubuntu - Tryng out Gnome-Do Docky

For amd64, it required a bit of snooping around. I also changed some of the defaults. The dock was way too high. I should add that I've been a dedicated AWN user for some time now.

Appearance is good. Performance seems quite good. A bit more playing is required.

Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope - New Volume Control Applet

Recent updates to Jaunty have brought a new volume control applet. Here are a couple of screenshots. More info about the volume control can be found here.

Clicking on the speaker icon brings up the applet (shown above) and clicking on "Volume Control" will open the volume control dialog shown below.

It seems that the initial settings of the new volume control are soft and you may have to go into the Preferences and select PCM and Master (individually) and turn them up all the way.

Any applications that have currently active sound are listed and can be controlled individually.

Ubuntu - AMD64 build of Mozilla Weave

Thanks to xur17 for an am64 build of Mozilla Weave 0.2.7! Unfortunately, the current versions don't include builds for Ubuntu amd64.

Weave is a useful Mozilla Labs addon for Firefox that allows syncing of bookmarks, password, and more between multiple computers.

Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex - You can Tell Release is Approaching

Part of running Ubuntu releases from Alpha through to release and then starting all over again, is following the Development forums posts for a particular release and the RSS feed of updates to that release.

In the beginning, the number of updates in my RSS reader is always larger than that of the posts in the forum. But in the last week or two, the number of new posts in the forum at any time is likely to be greater than the number of updated packages. A good sign about the uptake of Ubuntu. In fact, thinking back to earlier releases, I can't remember the Development forum for a release having this much activity as release approaches. It looks like a lot more people are trying out Beta and RC releases than in the past.