Michael Anthony Heap

Out of all the desktops available for Ubuntu, I like Gnome the best. I tried KDE once or twice back in the 6.06 days, but it just wasn’t for me. There’s plenty of themes available over at Gnome Look but the built in Mist theme was always my choice of theme. That is, until I…

This is taken directly from Caius’ blog, but it made me laugh so I had to repost it here. I’d advise checking out the original post, as it also has a reworked version of the Marine’s Creed for geeks The (Geek) Lord’s Prayer Our Compiler, who art in memory. GNU be thy name. Thy source…

While flicking through the Ubuntu Pocket Guide, I spotted a section on keyboard shortcuts that listed a lot that I didn’t know already. I don’t use the mouse much at all, and know all the basic keyboard shortcuts such as Alt+F to open the file menu, or shift + direction to highlight text. I’ll be…

When I first got my EEE901, the first thing I did was to get rid of Xandros, the Toys-R-Us like OS and install a proper distro. After a bit of googling, I came across eeebuntu. At that point, it was a working distro, but there was still a lot of work to be done to…