PowerTOP is a Linux tool created by Intel to identify software which causes increased power consumption even while your system is not working. By running PowerTOP and removing software which wakes your computer’s CPU from it’s idle state, you can increase the battery life of your laptop.
Install PowerTOP from the package powertop (click the link [...]

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Around the time of the release of Ubuntu 7.10, I tried out the Gnash Flash player included in that release. Because Adobe’s Flash player can not be redistributed in the default Ubuntu installation, a choice of players are offered when you visit a page in Firefox with Flash content. There are three options in Ubuntu [...]

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Since I last wrote about Ubuntu 8.04 after installing the beta, it has been generally stable but definitely beta quality. Here’s the bugs that have been bothering me, fixed and unfixed:
The good news, what’s been fixed:

When I first installed the beta, Firefox 3’s Java plugin didn’t work.
I use Nautilus as a SSH client for transferring [...]

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Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) is a runtime for building Internet-connected desktop applications with offine storage. It’s been available for Mac and Windows for a while, and now an alpha (non-feature complete) Linux version has been released. I tested it out in Ubuntu 8.04.
AIR requires a fairly recent Linux distribution, GNOME or KDE, and a [...]

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Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” Beta has been released, you can get it by downloading a ISO disk image, or by upgrading Ubuntu 7.10 or any of the alpha releases. In this post I’ll just be writing about my experiences with the beta since installing it.
Once the beta was out, I was ready to install it [...]

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