I recently received the an e-mail from Scott James Remnant on behalf of the Ubuntu Technical Board, regarding their Position on Mono. Here is an extract. “…the Ubuntu Technical Board sees no reason to exclude Mono or applications based upon it from the archive, or from the default installation set. Since the Mono stack is [...]

For those who haven’t heard, Ubuntu’s One Hundred Paper Cuts is an initiative of sorts, to fix 100 minor usability bugs in Ubuntu (and Kubuntu). It is being working through over a period of 10 weeks with 10 bugs scheduled to be fixed in each one week long milestone. These ‘paper cuts’ are described as [...]

If you know me much at all, you’ll know I have a small hobby centred around artificial intelligence. Fact or fiction, anything containing traces of AI tends to peak my interest, so obviously when a leading scientist in the field, Henry Markram made this announcement I was most interested. Henry Markram, the director of the [...]

The general update policy of Ubuntu states that application versions will be kept stable during each Ubuntu release other than in exceptional cases. Obviously security patches are still applied when available. This does mean however, with the recent release of Firefox 3.5 that Ubuntu users will have to wait until Ubuntu 9.10 until officially receiving [...]

Linux is a general term to describe operating systems based on the Linux kernel. Linux is best known for its use in servers (most often web servers) and integrated devices, especially network equipment such as routers, managed switches and such. However, Linux has, quite recently, gained a significant boost as a desktop operating system. This [...]

If you are looking for the concert hall in Boston, Massachusetts, you are most certainly in the wrong place. Jordan Hall in that context, is the New England Conservatory of Music’s (NEC’s) 1,019 seat central performing space, but that really is going off on a tangent. If you are looking for the country Jordan, then [...]

Getting Spotify’s links to work in Linux is pretty simple. At the time of writing this, there is no native Linux Spotify client available, and these instructions assume you are using the Windows version of Spotify via Wine. If you are unsure as to what Spotify is exactly, stop right there and read what I [...]

What is Spotify? An excellent streaming music service. I’ll be writing more about the Spotify service in the future. More information is available about Spotify at the following links: Official Spotify website Spotify wikipedia article The following Spotify guide is available on this website. How to get Spotify links to work in Linux