Archive for the ‘Ubuntu’ Category
Ubuntu, Fedora or Mint?
About a month ago after I finished my last module, I upgraded to the latest Ubuntu release, 11.04 or ‘Natty Narwhal’. My first impressions over the course of a week or two were sufficient to have me go looking elsewhere. There were some big problems. Ubuntu 11.04 The new Unity interface, whilst it’s very pretty, [...]
First Impressions of Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
I got round to trying an installation of Ubuntu 10.04 today from my trusty USB stick. The install went smoothly and quickly (except for a problem with having two HDDs in this machine, with the OS on the second drive – remember to customise the boot options to boot from the right hard disk in [...]
Installing Ubuntu 9.10 from a USB Stick
Linux distributions tend to come as ISO images – files which are images of CDs/DVDs. I’ve always burned the images to a disk to install, but I’ve been meaning to try setting up a bootable USB stick instead. Better for the environment, right? More importantly, I never seem to have a blank CD knocking about [...]
In: Ubuntu · Tagged with: Ubuntu
Matlab from the Ubuntu Menu
Getting stuff to work from the Ubuntu Menu is pretty straightforward, but I ran into some little problems that confused me with Matlab. This post goes through the steps and difficulties I had, which might be useful in general, not just in relation to Matlab. First up, I installed the Student Edition of Matlab (currently [...]
In: matlab, Ubuntu · Tagged with: matlab, MSc
Using Dropbox for Syncing Computers
I tried Dropbox when I was doing my first MSc module. As the course involved writing code and documents, I would work during the day when I was onsite on my laptop, then switch to my desktop to continue working for the week. Naturally, I would forget to copy something to my laptop ready for [...]
In: MSc, Ubuntu · Tagged with: dropbox, sharing, sync