Category: jolicloud

jolicloud 1.1 finally

Imagine my surprise when I logged into Chrome after installing Jolicloud 1.1 to see an entry, apparently some several days old, indicating I could now UPGRADE from Jolicloud 1 to Jolicloud 1.1.  (And that there are Jolicloud reps. in Vegas at CES.  I mig… more »

Haiku and Jolicloud

I've been installing Haiku and Jolicloud to see what's shaking.  Haiku is a new alpha stage operating system and Jolicloud is a cloud-centric version of linux utilizing Ubuntu at its base. One of my computers is running Jolicloud and I recently [starte… more »

the value of xkill

KDE3 used to have a hotkey to pop up a little skull and crossbones cursor, which -- if you clicked on a stalled or runaway application (well, any application), would kill it.  Very useful -- especially when there was a much bigger problem with runaway ap… more »

a tiny percent of 1.67%

I read somewhere that linux users make up 1.67% of computer users.  Whoa!  IzWeAwesum? And then again, those of us who seem to leave a trail of (old but running) computers at multiple locations that we want to "synchronize" are probably, what? 1.67% of t… more »

jolicloud+lxde+compiz+cairo-dock+conky+google gadgets

Working pretty good now.Well, some issues.  1st was, I didn't install to the same home directory I normally use.  I had hard coded the directory location into some of my setup files, so making the hand-off of configuration files work has some issues, but… more »