Blog Archive 2007

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Sweet Weather Wallpaper

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: December 16, 2007 at 3:09 am

I was bored looking at weather stuff tonight since we are getting pummeled with snow tonight in Chicago and found a new desktop wallpaper application called Weather Wallpaper. It runs great and looks great, so here is the complimentary screen shot.

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Chicago Packaging Jam Reminder

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: December 15, 2007 at 9:31 pm

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/ChicagoTeam/PackagingJam Sunday, December 16th from 10am until 4pm, the Ubuntu Chicago LoCo team will be holding its first ever Packaging Jam in order to teach users how to correctly package for Ubuntu. Tomorrow will be an introduction to get new packagers familiar with the tools and operations of the MOTU and Ubuntu packaging in general. [...]

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K-volution

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: December 14, 2007 at 6:31 pm

I can’t help but sit here right now, while KDE 4 is building away on my new computer just for KDE 4, and think about the past 13+ years with Linux. In 1994 I bought a Packard Bell computer from the Navy Exchange. This computer had all of the bells and whistles. A super large [...]

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