The last release (Ubuntu 7.10) was the first in which we shipped Tracker enabled by default; this service runs in the background and indexes all of your files, storing information about them in a metadatabase which can subsequently be searched. The two main ways of searching are through the deskbar-applet (press Alt+F3) and within [...]
I’ve not really been having much luck with blog software; I’ve found that the harder the software is to use, or the more maintenance it requires, the less I care about blogging.
Ironically, perhaps the easiest time was with Livejournal; it’s easy to set up, maintain and post to simply because it’s a hosted service. [...]
Thanks to a combination of bad weather and the trip away for FOSSCamp, UDS and AllHand, it’s been six weeks since I last got a chance to fly! Last time we’d covered a second session of stalling and recovery, and the next exercises to cover were the all-important circuits: taking off, flying around the [...]
