Archive for July, 2009
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
I recently succumbed to the call of the iPhone.
I've had it for about a week, and I like it a lot.
All except for the fact that it's tied to Apple's App Store.
There's a whole world of third-party apps out there, but they're not available in the App Store.
So, I decided ...
Posted in Linux, iPhone | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
It was widely reported today that Google is working on "Chrome OS", a Linux based operating system targeted at netbooks.
The apparent purpose is to have an OS that boots very quickly on low-end hardware, and which mainly supports running Google's Chrome Web Browser.
To sum it up, instant-on access to Google ...
Posted in Chariot, Linux | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
As with the situation in an earlier post, the version of Subversion that is in the official Ubuntu repository is not the latest that is available elsewhere. The version that you currently get by installing Subversion on Ubuntu via apt-get is version 1.5, and 1.6 is out.
Fortunately, Anders Kaseorg has ...
Posted in Chariot, Linux, Ubuntu | 3 Comments »