Category Archives: linux

Dropbox on Lucid: Missing GUI? Fix it now!

By Drew | Published: July 15, 2010
Dropbox is great and their support is phenomenal.  Recently I have been having issues after upgrading to Lucid Lynx.  It’s been a large bother on me because I use Dropbox a ton in my personal use.  On my development server, I’m running Ubuntu 10.04 64 Desktop version, and I rely on Dropbox to keep my files [...]
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Droid Rooted, here’s my take.

By Drew | Published: December 8, 2009
Before you root, you should probably upgrade to 2.01, as that will ‘break’ your new root access. You can get that download from here, if you have not already received it OTA (Over the Air). You need to follow the directions below, to apply the 2.01. The directions for each download it exactly the same, [...]
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Perfecting the Linux User Desktop

By Drew | Published: March 8, 2009
The linux desktop over the years has been a large struggle for many users. I hear many complaints from people that have ‘tried’ linux out and they seem to all come to the conclusion that it is difficult or even impossible to use. The unfortunate part about most of these complaints, is that they are [...]
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Saving Battery on your Lenovo X61 in Linux

By admin | Published: December 6, 2008
here are some issues with the power manager in ubuntu and tablet.  There was  alarge discussion you can find here. But basically to save power and time you should run without atime by following these commands Make sure you have vim-full installed sudo apt-get install vim-full This is a powerful editor, the lite edition is [...]
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