• Chromium on Ubuntu

    I’ve been properly trying out Chromium (currently 4.0.204.0) on my Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) laptop. It’s been a mixed bag. Here’s some pros: Incredible start up.  Really, incredible.  Click icon, start using app IMMEDIATELY.  I’m really not used to that.  Chromium will have started up in half the time it takes Firefox 3.5 to load the

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  • GRDC – VNC and RDP in one amazing tool

    Forget Vinagre, forget Terminal Services Client, because there’s one tool now available that combines the best of both into one : GRDC. It’s a gnome tool that allows you to create a series of VNC and RDP entries (shortcuts if you like) and then launch them with a double-click. I’ve nominated it for sysadmin tool

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  • Portal FTW

    It’s true.  Portal rocks. See?

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  • Meet Elisa

    Been a while since I’ve posted, hasn’t it? But that just means that there’s even more cool stuff to nail now that I’m back. To kick off, here’s a video showing the latest and greatest from Fluendo’s Elisa media centre. Having watched all that, I do have to admit that Elisa is still a little

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  • Earthrise

    I sincerely hope this works.  If it does, you can see the earth rising over the moon, from about 100K above the moon’s surface.  From this Register article. Shame – that embedded object didn’t work.  You can still see the movie by using the link above, or by visiting it directly, here. [EDIT : I’ve added a

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