Category Archives: GNU/Linux

Ubuntu 9.10 on a Thinkpad T400

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Michael Schurter

I upgraded from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 on my Lenovo Thinkpad T400 about a week ago, and thought I’d write down some of my impressions. Good news ATI graphics card with proprietary binary driver – just works (much better than … Continue reading →

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My Gnome 3.0: A Real Web Desktop

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Michael Schurter

So I missed the stream of What I Want for Christmas Gnome 3.0 by … a while, but better late than never!* The Win Essentially what I want for Gnome 3.0 is what Tomboy just got: a web interface called … Continue reading →

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Keeping all your notes in sync with Dropbox and Tomboy

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Michael Schurter

Tomboy is a wonderful note taking program for Gnome. It has some synchronization features built-in, but not everyone has a server to store their notes for synchronizing between multiple computers. Enter Dropbox: a service for synchronizing files between computers. It … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing my OS Bridge Talk Proposal

Posted on March 29, 2009 by Michael Schurter

Update: Submitted my proposal, but please still leave me comments! I can still edit my proposal. Web server performance has been a hot topic for some time now as Apache hasn’t been the only viable option for a few years. … Continue reading →

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New Laptop: Acer Extensa 4630Z

Posted on March 22, 2009 by Michael Schurter

I bought a laptop recently because being a web consultant and tied to a desktop is not only embarrassing, but is a quick way to lose (or at least frustrate) clients who’d love to see my hairy hacker face on-site. … Continue reading →

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(Yet Another) Deploying Django with CherryPy Script

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Michael Schurter

Recently I deployed a Django project on an OSX server. I foolishly thought this would be as easy as on Linux until I ran into the mess that is x86_64 Apache + mod_wsgi* + Django + psycopg2 + i386 PostgreSQL. … Continue reading →

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