I was watching “The Big Bang Theory” on TV tonight. The show closed tonight with Sheldon sitting on the couch with his Dell XPS Alienware m15x laptop and sighing to himself, “Oh Ubuntu, you are my favorite Linux based operating system.”
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It seems like I’m always losing track of some small sheet of paper with a recipe from my Mom written on it. An old fashioned box of recipe cards just doesn’t suit my style, so I thought about creating a database using OpenOffice.org’s Base. Being short on time and motivation, I decided to look for …
Continue reading Organize Your Recipes with Gourmet Recipe ManagerIf you’re a terminal junkie, then you may find yourself wanting to open a terminal window sometimes when you’re browsing the file system in your file manager. If you use the Nautilus file manager, it’s easy to add a button to the context menu to open a terminal window in the current directory.
Continue reading Add an Open Terminal Button to NautilusIf you’re developing websites, it’s nice to be able to test your code in the privacy of your own computer rather that out in the public internet. In order to do that, you’ll need to install a web server on your development computer. LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, php) is one of the most common web …
Continue reading Installing LAMP on Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 (Lucid Lynx, Maverick Meerkat)Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) uses the latest version of the Nautilus file manager (version 2.30.0). If you’ve been using Ubuntu for a while then you might be accustomed to using location entry in Nautilus. By default, Nautilus came up with the Button Bar to represent the current location in the file system.
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