Uninstall Firefox Install Chrome There is no step 3 I’m seriously getting sick and tired of Firefox. Chrome for Linux can’t come any faster. When even with only 5 tabs open, it eats over 600 MB, and frequently fades out to the standard “application not responding” state. It can’t even switch tabs without lagging. If I have a video playing in one tab, it frequently hangs when I switch tab, or open a new tab. Pain. Chrome is just better, and o...
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software development with some really amazing hairGet Chromium running on Linux (specifically Ubuntu)
So what I have here is nothing fancy. It’s basically cut and paste from the Chromium site, but if you don’t want to think, just download and run, and have Chromium on your Ubuntu setup. So, on with the script: The comments speak for themselves. Basically, get prerequisites, get tools, get source, build away. This process will take awhile, so once it starts go flirt with your significant other for a bit :) The first thing you see when you start...
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TurnKey Linux
I discovered TurnKey Linux while I was running around on the web, and found it quite interesting. From the site: TurnKey Linux is a new open source project that aims to develop high quality software appliances that are easy to use, easy to deploy, and free. The appliances are based on Ubuntu 8.04.2 which is an LTS release, so updates are supported until sometime in 2011. They even provide a base setup of either plain JeOS or the the basic st...
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The Dell E521 hates me
So today I started my new job. There was much rejoicing. Mainly by my father, whose bank account I slowly siphoned away whilst at university. Being a software engineer (member-in-training), I work on a computer. This computer happened to be a Dell E521. Not a top end machine, but for what I was going to be doing it was plenty of machine. I could do with it what I wanted I was told; awesome. I’m now the first person at CodeBaby to be running Ub...
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Daniel Huckstep is a software engineer (EIT) in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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