Ubuntu Brainstorm!

So first there was Digg. It made social news/voting kind of big. Then there were a million and one spin offs of digg. Dell then took this idea and turned it into Dells' Idea Storm, where users could suggest things for the company.

Now there is Ubuntu taking this idea and doing what Dell did. There now is A Ubuntu website made by Ubuntu called Ubuntu Brainstorm. AT this site you can suggest ideas and vote on ones you like best. It looks liek Ubuntu really wants to know what the community wants in a linux distro.

So right over to Ubuntu Brainstorm, and go help shape the future of Ubuntu!

Ubuntu Awn Curves theme

I created a Ubuntu Awn theme a while back, and now decided I should make a Ubuntu Curve theme for Awn Curves. So here it is:


If you would like to download it, grab it here.


Any questions or help setting it up ask in the comments.

New Comment System (Take 2)

If you have followed this blog for awhile, you may know I got rid of the blogger comment system awhile ago. The new comment system was snazzy, But it seemed to go down a lot and that really bugged me.

So this is a test post to see if the new comments will work. The new comment system will only work on new posts, so we will not loose any valuable hellp from previous comments.

Have fun, and lets get chatty!

A little help please

So basically I am stuck, and am going to ask you, my readers for some help. I have an old IBM thinkpad 600e which I was previously installed and ran Ubuntu on fine, and before that damn small linux. You all probably know I am good at breaking my system and I did it yet again but this time on my laptop.

So I figured I would reinstall ubuntu. I went at it but got errors about not having enough memory for the GDM to start up...what ever that meant. So I downloaded a bootable partition manager an deleted all my old partitions and created one new one, with ext3.

Next I went to try booting into the ubuntu live cd again, but this time got this error:

not syncing: vfs: unable to mount fs on unknown-block(1,0)


If you have any suggestions or ideas, please post them in the comments section. I will update you guys if things get fixed.

Thanks

Awn Launcher (Only)

A lot of people around have been asking for Awn to be only a launcher, and not track tasks....I personally don't see why. But anywho for all you peopel who just want to use Awn as a launcher and nothing else, then you can thank moonbeam. Over at the Awn forum moonbeam made a post saying he has created just this.

I believe if you grab the latest trunk, because you need the vala support then you can try this applet. Any questions about it or bug reports please paste in the forum post.

Thunderbird Awn Plugin

I just started to use thunderbird with my gmail account. I have liked it so much, I am using it now all the time, and not using my online version of gmail. So me being the Awn obsessed man I am, I knew there must be an Awn plug in somewhere. So I searched the Awn forums till I found this post.

Basically this plug in will place messages over the Thunderbird Icon on the dock, notifying you of new mail massages, like so:


I find this plug in very convenient because i do not have to keep un-minimizing Thunderbird to check if I have new messages. Now if you already are a Thunderbird user your probably saying, Thunderbird can give you pop up notifications for when new mail comes in. Well you right, but I turned them off cause they look so ugly. This awn plug in is the much more blingy way to do it!

To grab the plug in you can download it from here. But you need to have an account there because it is in the sandbox section. Also once your account is created you need to go to preferences and enable viewing of sandbox addons.

Intrepid what?

The next Ubuntu version was just given it's name Intrepid Ibex! If your like me when you first heard that you were like, "say what?" So what is exactly is an Ibex you ask? Well this si what it looks like:


Also if you want to know more about the Ibex check out its wikipedia article.