Dec 16 2004

Firefox ad published

Filed under: Free and open source software, Marketing — Matthew Revell at 5:22 pm

DJ, one of the LugRadio faithful, mentions today’s advert for Firefox, in the New York Times.

Dec 13 2004

LugRadio season 2 episode 5

Filed under: LugRadio — Matthew Revell at 9:43 am

LugRadio season 2 episode 5 is now available. I couldn’t make that show, as I was revising for my CIM diploma exams.

The guys talk about:

  • Fedora Core 3: what that’s all about, with FedoraNews.org’s Gavin Henry
  • The new GPL: the FSF’s work on their new licence, and the Affero GPL
  • MS FUD: where does it really come from?
  • The Cell chip: the new chip from Sony/IBM/Toshiba
  • IBM: sale of their PC business
  • Open source catch-up: will OSS always be playing catch-up to MS and Apple?

Usual warning about bad language applies.

Dec 05 2004

Automatic shutdown in Ubuntu

Filed under: Free and open source software — Matthew Revell at 9:25 am

When I ran Debian, the shutdown process would never power off my machine. The processor fan would stop and the screen would read “Power down”, leaving me to press the button. A minor irritant.

I had the same problem with Ubuntu, until yesterday evening. After reading a few forum posts which all seemed very involved and a bit disjointed, I added:

apm power_off=1

to /etc/modules

Now, Ubuntu powers down automatically. Hooray.