Ecco apro il mio blog… un pò di sana concorrenza non fa mai male a nessuno! Staremo a vedere come questo “AMD, nVIDIA o qualsiasi altra cosa che abbia iniziato come pura alternativa” sappia farsi valere tra i colossi….

…un saluto, per ora.

Un paseito por mi escritorio de Ubuntu 7.10 (Gusty) para 64bits

The newest version of Ubuntu has been out for awhile but I am deciding to write a blog post about it. This version of Ubuntu comes out after 7.04 and the jump to a even higher version of this OS is a very good thing. I quickly upgrade the OS to the newer version and found there to be some good improvements in the Operating System. They have made many strives in making it user friendly for a user coming from a Windows computer. They have also have a lot of programs already installed on default to make it easy for the new user to get around and they are things that you would normally have to pay for on windows but this update brings manly newer programs to the list of programs advaiable in the repos.

There are a lot more features that they added to the OS between the last version.

After getting confused reading the dual monitor post at Ubuntu Forums, I had almost given up enabling it on my dekstop. Then I saw this most simple set of instructions at Gouki’s web site and it worked just great.

The instructions are very simple

1. sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup
2. sudo aticonfig --initial
3. sudo aticonfig --initial=dual-head --screen-layout=left
4. (Restart X by Ctrl-Alt-Backspace)
5. sudo aticonfig --dtop=horizontal
6. (Restart X by Ctrl-Alt-Backspace)

That is a screen shot of my Emacs running on Gusty Gibbon. The Emacs version is 23 and it has XFont enabled. This is not an offical release and is based on the code in cvs, but Alexandre Vassalotti has simplified the installation that with a few commands you can have it running on your Ubuntu.

The step by step instructions are available here: Pretty Emacs Reloaded.

After following the instruction, I got this error which was solved by a few more commands.

in my short time that i have been using the mac, i find that the default “preview” app for viewing pictures kinda sucks. top of the list is having to select files then right clicking and select “open with preview” before you can preview multiple pictures – wastes precious mouse movement seconds. on top of that, you can only “preview” the files that were selected and loaded; if you need to view the ones that weren’t selected, you need to go back to finder and double click it again (hand needs to move off keyboard to the mouse to navigate and double click – wastes time). “use a media manager to view all  photo/picture files instead you bloody oaf” others might say but what is the point if the purpose is just to have a quick view and not have to fire up an app then loading the file in before you can?

xee is a “preview” replacement that works a lot like windows picture viewer (i can’t find a better app to compare to. it’s not that its any good but it does at least work the basics proper). install it, set it to be the default viewer and one will be easily able to browse through a folders worth of picture/photo files with the mouse wheel or left/right keys. file download’s mighty small (1.3mb) and its free too!

not sure if “preview” has been updated/upgraded to include such simple features with leopard, but my take is that the guys at apple should just adopt xee as a standard in their future os releases.