Blog Archive March 2008

Monthly Archives: March 2008

Upcoming week in review

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: March 30, 2008 at 10:42 pm

This weekend, April 4th and 5th, is the annual Flourish Conference, a decent sized free software conference held at the University of Illinois at Chicago. This years guest speakers include Bruce Perens, John ‘Maddog’ Hall, James Bottomley, Brian Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman, and me of course, plus many more. Some of the events being held include [...]

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When is to much, to much?

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: March 29, 2008 at 4:18 pm

Working on my ‘inbox zero’ project right now after a day of enjoying the lovely Chicago weather we are having right now. One thing that strikes me are the amount of mailing lists I seem to be subscribed to. I am currently sitting at about 50 mailing lists. Honestly, this sounds ridiculous, like totally impossible [...]

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Install KDE 4 in Hardy

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: March 19, 2008 at 12:54 am

Want the current KDE 4 goodness in Ubuntu or Kubuntu 8.04? If so, simply install kubuntu-kde4-desktop and enjoy! Current version is 4.0.2 with 4.0.3 due out towards the beginning of April.

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