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It appears that the defendants suing Microsoft over misleading "Windows Vista Capable" stickers have taken their lawsuit nationwide as a class action. I am honestly confused as to why anyone would sue MS for the privilege to run the more bloated version of their piece-of-junk operating system. I hope these people keep running XP until their power supplies finally blow up.

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This is an excellent read about how nerds work http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/11/11/the_nerd_handbook.html

I tried to install the ies4linux IE7 beta today. I ran into an issue with the installer reporting that the IE7 installation package was corrupt. It looks like Microsoft has updated the package since February when this latest beta was released. Evidently, the IEs 4 Linux installer does filesize checking and md5 hashing. I downloaded the latest package myself from microsoft.com and checked the filesize and md5 at the shell. Replace the IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe line in your existing ies4linux-2.5beta6/files and all should proceed normally.

IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe 15452536 ea16789f6fc1d2523f704e8f9afbe906

After upgrading to Gutsy Gibbon from Feisty, I observed a particularly annoying behavior in Evolution. Suddenly, all of my calendar reminders stopped firing. We use an Exchange server at work, so Evolution is one of the only practical solutions for email and calendar. I fidgeted with settings and killed processes to no avail. Finally, I am able to say that I have found an effective solution.

1. Run gconf-editor /apps/evolution/calendar/notify
2. See if the calendars list value is empty. If so, this fix applies to you. If not, your issues may lie elsewhere.
3. In the left pane tree, click on the "calendar" root node.
4. In the right pane, scroll down to "sources".
5. Find the appropriate calendar and copy the ...

After using Gutsy for a couple of weeks, I think I can give a fair assessment of the situation.

First, it is definitely a step up from Feisty. Compiz is much improved (stable) and seems to perform a little better. None of my old configs broke, and I have access to some new facilities for configuring things, such as a gnome configuration panel for x resolution.

However, there are a few drawbacks. Primarily, vmware-server was removed from the Canonical partner repository. I assume this is in preparation for an updated built from VMWare. However, in the meantime, no package exists that is compatible with Gutsy. There are various workarounds involving installing the old package or getting the source package from ...