Archive for the ‘Ubuntu’ Category
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
Most GPS software that ships with Ubuntu 10.04 uses gpsd to retrieve data from the GPS receiver. So make sure that you have gpsd installed. Unfortunately the new JSON protocol used by gpsd is not supported by some applications. You need to install ...
Posted in Linux, OpenStreetMap, Python, Ubuntu, Wi-Fi | 1 Comment »
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
The applet retrieves the current playlist of the German WDR 2 radio channel and displays it in a GNOME panel. It can easily be modified to fetch and display other data from the web (e.g. playlists, headlines, weather) if you are familiar with regular expressions.
Download: playlist_wdr2.tar.gz
Posted in GTK, Linux, Python, Ubuntu | 1 Comment »
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
After a major crash of our Acer Aspire 1642 the hard disk needed to be replaced. After booting from a life CD we successfully installed Ubuntu Gutsy on the new drive. Unfortunately, after reboot the BIOS appeared to be completely blind to it. A BIOS upgrade would not fix the ...
Posted in Linux, Ubuntu | 2 Comments »