If you’re keeping track of the technology trends in the market you’ll notice that Google’s Android is really making a name for itself and establishing itself as the dominant operating system.  The development and saturation of the operating system have been impressive to say the least.

It’s a weird feeling to be in a situation where the windows operating system has been such a dominant position for so long, it’s hard to imagine another operating system coming out of nowhere within just a past couple of years and placing Microsoft on its heels in a category from which Microsoft should be dominating.

It’s a strange vibe…

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The latest release of Ubuntu is out, and it’s fantastic! This is no joke; it’s an impressive release to be sure.

Ubuntu developers have been climbing and improving with each release, and the latest release is the most impressed I’ve been so far. It’s got the fastest boot time I’ve ever seen, even from a sleep mode.

For me, I do all my testing on VirtualBox, and they do a great job, but with Ubuntu they’re still having an issues with the display detection, and I don’t know if it’s on purpose or not, but the solution is rather simple.

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As an interesting folly, everyone knows that Firefox is developed and used upon multiple platforms. The appealing nature of Firefox is that it’s the same application, plug-ins are consistent across different operating systems and the behavior of the application should be the same.

But if your an user that’s used to using Firefox in the Windows operating system and then you migrate, or start using Ubuntu with Firefox, you’ll notice a strange missing behavior from Firefox.

One of the basic functions of the browser is to be able to press the backspace key and go to the previous page, but for some reason, in Ubuntu 9.10, this function is disabled.

Here’s how you fix that…

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Closing out the 2009 year with some good progress and experience. Running the site month by month is experience by itself, but sadly the site has not been able to produce enough to support it’s self; this is not a surprise and is actually the norm with sites like mine, but this doesn’t mean the sadness. I’ve seen a huge view of prosperity in the last quarter of LEHSYS.

As with any business, you’ve to keep trying things, watch for the ones that work and those don’t. I’d like to say that I have been trying to be a good student and I feel things are going in the direction I want and doing things on MY terms.

Here’s the December report…

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As I work more with Ubuntu, I notice there’s a few quirks with it, and I was recently struck with a rather simple problem that turned in to a bigger problem. And what was more troubling was there was no REAL solution to find; it was staggering.

The Windows public seems to have a grip on the issue fairly well and there are tons of tool for it, but Ubuntu, not so much.

Try printing to PDF… or create a PDF.

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I’ve had Ubuntu loaded on my Dell M60 laptop [several years old] for an almost 2 months now and I’ve had absolutely no issues of virus attacks. This begs the question, ‘Do I need anti-virus for Ubuntu?’

While Ubuntu/Linux virus attacks are virtually unheard of, based on some forums and documentation virus attacks are theoretically possible.

And this is making me wonder if I need to use anti-virus at all…

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When I loaded Ubuntu a month ago, it was mostly painless. The thing you need to understand, it’s not Windows and while Windows has many applications to do what’s considered a common place function, like playing music, doing things in Ubuntu are a bit different.

But once I was able to get Ubuntu where I wanted it, I need a music player…

Enter Amarok…

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I loaded the latest version of Ubuntu the other day to my DELL M60 laptop; it’s about 5 years old and it was really struggling with life as a laptop with Windows. I had issues with power, issues with hibernation and issues with staying connected with my wireless router.

I was incurring all these problems and I figured, what the hell, what do I’ve to lose? If I screw it completely up, I’ll just reload Windows and go back to shoveling muck around; just like I was doing before.

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