Linux Basement Presents: Chad’s Blog

Testing the BloGTK client on Ubuntu

Submitted by Chad on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 7:09pm.

Hey,
I figured I’d make a quick post. I’ve downloaded BloGTK 1.1 using the
apt-get repositories in Ubuntu 7 and have successfully connected to the
server. I hope this post works! Note to those using the Blog API module
in Drupal, you have to use http://yourhost.com/xmlrpc.php
Being that I’ve never used a Blog client before (yeah I know I’m behind
the times) I did not realize that I needed to connect to the xmlrpc.php
file. There is a function in that file that relates to the boostrap
file in Drupal. I don’t know what that means, but I think it is going
to work!

Linux vs Windows. Goodbye my sweet proprietary software. - Archived

Well, it is done. I’ve switched over from windows Vista to Ubuntu 7. More notably Ubuntustudio,
which just released. Ubuntustudio is basically Ubuntu 7 Feisty Fawn,
but pre-installed with lots of goodies for the music/movies/graphics
creator. It is a creative suite OS. So far, I love it, though I have
not delved into trying to set up my usb preamp with linux yet, and I am
dreading doing so, as I can already see there will be quite a learning
curve. All and all though, I love Ubuntu, and have for quite some time
since I’ve been running it on my work laptop.

I made the decision because, well, in my technically busy wolrld, I
don’t have the time to mess with Vista Idiosyncrasies (which by the way
should be the name of the next Vista release). Every time I want to
install something, do something with administrative rights, or attempt
to access another computer over the network, I have to go through
frickin hoops. Bollocks. How sad is it that I can access computers on
an active directory domain easier with Ubuntu then with Vista. That is
not the worst though. How about trying to access my Vista desktop files
from another machine. Nearly impossible. Great, I’ve got security but
all practicality has flown out the window, which is exactly what I want
to do with my computer, throw it out the window. I’m now a network
admin on and active directory domain running Ubuntu. Nice work
Microsoft.

The only thing I’m going to miss are the games at home. But I
couldn’t run those on Vista either, so there is not much loss. This is
actually one of the reasons I broke. I tried to load the first Call of
Duty on my Vista box and when I ran it, it spat at me. Right in the
eye. WHAT? COD doesn’t work with Vista??? Forget it. Yes, I could have
gone on google and searched for a fix or mulled the boards of various
disgruntled user sites. But I’m tired of not being able to tweak Vista.
Do you know why I can’t tweak it? Because it is all proprietary.

On that note, I end this mess of a blog, asking, “Can I tweak Ubuntu?” The answer is hell yes. And I’m doing it right now.

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First Post - Archived

So here we are, the first post on the new blog site. I am setting
this site up to post my views on just about anything without having to
offend people who visit my family site, cwolly.com. Here, I will post
anything that is on my mind, and if you don’t like it, don’t come here.
I’ve set the site up using drupal, (since have moved to Wordpress. Seems to be much more blog friendly)
as always. I plan to mod the theme and I’m using several nice modules
such as blog api and the digg module. Being that I’m a technical kind
of guy, I will go into more of the technical aspects of running these
sites in future posts, including the interesting fact that I am now
running linux full time both at work on my laptop, and on my home
desktop machine. Windows Vista officially disgusted me enough that I
decided to move over full time. While perusing the apt repository, I
noticed that you can install drupal 5.1 (the latest release) just by
using apt-get. WOW. That is great. I am currently running my server on
Debian Sarge and hope to upgrade to either Etch or, since I’ve had this
epiphany, I may move over to Ubuntu Server.

More on that to come. I hope anyone who happens by the site enjoys it.