Looking through posts tagged ‘Ubuntu’
eMusic Review | 6th Jun 2010
When I bought my new portable audio player, it came with a bunch of free songs from eMusic. I have gotten these offers before, but in the past I did not bother cashing them in because the eMusic selection was pretty limited. Since I wanted to grab some new music to fill my new toy, [...]
Ubuntu Artwork Pool | 17th Feb 2010
I created a Flickr account so that I could submit some of my more “artsy” photos to the Ubuntu Artwork pool. In order to qualify for the pool, all photos must be licensed as CC-BY-SA or CC-BY, and all my photos are licensed CC-BY. Ubuntu developers will be choosing photos from the pool to be [...]
Amazon MP3 on Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit | 19th Dec 2009
I recently reinstalled Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) on both my desktop and laptop. When I went to buy an album on Amazon MP3, I remembered that Amazon only offers a 32-bit version of their MP3 downloader. Unfortunately, there’s not a very intuitive way to install the Amazon downloader on a 64-bit system, and you need it [...]
Smoke and Mirrors | 28th Sep 2009
Apparently Lenovo has put a lot of work in making Windows 7 boot “unbelievably fast.” When you go on to read the article, you see that you’ll get a boot time possibly as “quickly” as 30 seconds, which is a significant improvement for Windows. Of course to explain how they get that, you get a [...]
Death by 100 Papercuts | 10th Jun 2009
The newly formed, Canonical-sponsored, User-Experience Team is already hard at work on their major campaign to improve the default Ubuntu experience with the Ayatana project. One of their big goals for Ubuntu 9.10 is dubbed “One Hundred Papercuts.” Canonical seems to be taking the constant criticism of the default Ubuntu experience to heart, and they’re [...]
Windows 7: Netbook killer | 22nd Apr 2009
The following is a prediction of things to come in the next year. I get the feeling that Microsoft is trying to kill the netbook market with Windows 7. In case you haven’t heard, Microsoft announced a new edition of Windows 7: Starter Edition. The Starter Edition is only capable of running 3 applications at [...]
Linux for Clinics | 29th Mar 2009
I ran across a new linux distro today that I thought was pretty cool. It’s called Linux for Clinics. It’s an Ubuntu-based linux distribution geared toward running an entire medical office. It utilizes a few project I’ve heard of before, like GNUmed, but this is pushing to be a full-fledged medical clinic OS. Development seems [...]
Proliferation | 1st Mar 2009
I was going to get coffee at ABP at school last week, and I overheard a random guy with his laptop in the hospital lobby chatting with the guy sitting next to him and saying that he uses Linux. As I walked past, I glanced over my shoulder to see Ubuntu 8.10 loaded. Last weekend, [...]
Shiki-wood | 19th Feb 2009
I was playing around with a copy of Ubuntu 8.10 in VirtualBox the other day. I decided to try out the Shiki Colors theme. I had also been messing around with backgrounds and found that Shiki Colors looks very nice when paired with Hardwood Lights from zyklophon at Deviant Art. What do you think?
Ubuntu and Its Leader Set Sights on the Mainstream – NYTimes.com | 13th Jan 2009
Ubuntu and Its Leader Set Sights on the Mainstream – NYTimes.com.
I'm Jonathan Blackhall, a 4th year medical student at RMC. This is my blog, where I ramble about technology, medicine, free software, and other random stuff. 
