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Linux migration proposal for Berlin rejected
by Peter Reutemann 16 Jun '13

16 Jun '13

'A petition to use more open source tools in the Berlin city administration that was proposed in the federal state parliament of the State of Berlin by the German Green Party has failed. The petition was rejected with the votes of the governing SPD/CDU coalition in the "digital administration" committee tasked with its evaluation. The Green Party's plan had included a migration to free and open source software on 25 per cent of the city administration's workstations and a comprehensive switch of all servers to Linux in a similar fashion to Munich's LiMux project.' -- source: http://h-online.com/-1888130 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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32bit support of 64bit crunchbang
by Peter Reutemann 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

For the crunchbangers among you... Getting 32-bit support going on a 64-bit crunchbang is a bit more fiddly than on an Ubuntu install (ia32-libs is labeled as "broken"). The following post explains how to be able to install ia32-libs after all: http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=277918#p277918 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Debian Says Remove Unofficial Debian-Multimedia.org Repository From Your Sources
by Peter Reutemann 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

Debian warns on its blog: "The unofficial third party repository Debian Multimedia stopped using the domain debian-multimedia.org some months ago. The domain expired and it is now registered again by someone unknown to Debian. (If we're wrong on this point, please sent us an email so we can take over the domain! This means that the repository is no longer safe to use, and you should remove the related entries from your source.list file." -- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/06/14/0219213 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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KDE Plasma Can Now Run On Wayland
by Peter Reutemann 13 Jun '13

13 Jun '13

"With the upcoming KDE 4.11, there's an initial Wayland backend through the KWin manager. The author notes on his blog: 'Once the system is fully started you can just use it. If everything works fine, you should not even notice any difference, though there are still limitations, like only the three mouse buttons of my touchpad are supported ;-)'" -- source: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/06/12/1427239/kde-plasma-can-now-run-on-w… Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Raspberry Pi and Lego Mindstorms to be united by BrickPi
by Peter Reutemann 12 Jun '13

12 Jun '13

"The Raspberry Pi will be able to talk to Lego Mindstorms sensors and motors thanks to BrickPI and its closing-soon Kickstarter campaign. The open hardware and software designs are already available for makers to work with." -- source: http://h-online.com/-1887149 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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First Look At Ubuntu Touch, the Smartphone OS
by Peter Reutemann 11 Jun '13

11 Jun '13

"The first developer preview of Ubuntu Touch – aka 'Ubuntu for Phones and Tablets' – was unveiled just a few short months ago. And, just a few weeks back, it was announced that the team was shooting for having a fully functional (aka "can use it as your actual phone, on a daily basis") version by the end of May. May is now over, so Bryan Lunduke published some screenshots and analysis of the core features of the Ubuntu OS for smartphones and tablets." -- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/06/11/1455219/first-look-at-ubuntu-touch… Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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gnome/mate panel with two monitors
by Mark H. Jones 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Another way I have found to move panels between monitors is to disable the monitor on which the panel is displayed, thus forcing the panel to be displayed on the other (primary) monitor. After this you can re-enable the secondary monitor and the panel stays on the primary. I'm not sure if this is common knowledge or not but thought I should share. Regards, Mark

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gnome/mate panel with two monitors
by Peter Reutemann 09 Jun '13

09 Jun '13

Hi there One thing that annoyed me in Gnome/Mate and multi-monitor setup was that I seemed to end up with the panels on the wrong monitor. I still had that issue with Linux Mint 14 and there didn't seem to be an obvious option in the monitor setup like "make this screen the primary one". However, today I came across a little tip of how you can move the panel between monitors manually: - uncheck the "expand" option in the panel's properties - grab one of the handles at the end and move the panel to the other screen - check "expand" again source: http://chrisjean.com/2009/11/03/move-gnome-panels-to-a-different-monitor-in… Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Ubuntu Tweak ready for Ubuntu 13.04
by Peter Reutemann 09 Jun '13

09 Jun '13

"Version 0.8.5 fixes a number of bugs under Ubuntu 13.04. The developers recommend that users of the latest Ubuntu version should upgrade their version of Ubuntu Tweak as soon as possible." -- source: http://h-online.com/-1884492 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Calibre ebook manager converts DOCX documents
by Peter Reutemann 09 Jun '13

09 Jun '13

"The latest version, 0.9.34, of the open source cross-platform ebook manager Calibre can convert the DOCX format that is used in Microsoft Word. It also includes a new driver and an improved ebook viewer." -- source: http://h-online.com/-1884766 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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