This is more for me than anyone else. Every so often I have to run Windows to update some (USB based) device that only works with some terrible software. That terrible software almost always only runs on Windows. My next three steps are opening VirtualBox on my computer (running Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) at the moment), …
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First, some background Confession time. I used to be a die hard Apple fan. I remember second grade when the Apple IIe and I first made eye contact. I’m pretty sure I saw the computer smile at me. I was in love. Sure, over the years I occasionally flirted with PCs running Microsoft operating systems …
For some reason, finding the Mozilla Thunderbird calendar add-ons that are compatible with 64-bit Linux were not as easy to find as I thought they would be. It took me several Google searches to finally turn up this link: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/calendar/lightning/releases/1.0b2/contrib/linux-x86_64/ When I went to either the Lightning install page or the Provider for Google Calendar …
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On May 11, 2009 I joined Canonical as a project manager on the Ubuntu One team. I went from working in the world of Department of Defense contracting to the world of free software. I now have a better appreciation for E.T.’s plight. OK, maybe not. E.T. was trying to get back home. I feel …
I help out with the support requests that come into Ubuntu One. It doesn’t take too long helping out there before you realize our process for setting up your computer with Ubuntu One on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS can be problematic for some people. We’re making the setup process better in the next release (Maverick, Ubuntu …
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First things first. If you’re testing software and you’re not using some sort of virtualization solution, stop reading this and go install one. My product of choice is VirtualBox. It’s free (as in no cost and most of it is open source), user friendly, runs on an Ubuntu host computer and I’m familiar with it. …
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