On my Ubuntu laptop at work, I resurrected one of my old, lazy, and buggy method to check latency to some network device. Perhaps it may be useful to someone. #!/usr/bin/env bash limit_ms=150 sleep_duration=1 while [ true ]; do pong_res=$(ping -c 1 10.0.0.30 | sed -n ‘s/.*time=\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p’) echo “$(date +%s): pong response is $pong_res” if [ "$pong_res" [...]
You are formally invited to this event put together by Ubuntu Wisconsin LoCo’s very own Ian Weisser (Cheesehead): Help us with Ubuntu Friendly. Find us today at 9:00CDT (02:00 GMT) #ubuntu-us-wi on Freenode or the web client Ubuntu Friendly is the new hardware validation and database client. The application tests your system hardware, and sends a hardware report [...]
Rick Schwai’s resentation was a great success in Rhinelander! We had 13 people in attendance. My wife and I were happy to attend, and I provided any clarification on questions during the presentation, as well as talked about the Ubuntu Local Community. After, Rick took a survey and interest form, and everyone was able to [...]
Rick Schwai from our own Ubuntu Wisconsin Local Community had an interview with WXPR regarding his upcoming presentation, “Introduction To Ubuntu.” Above is the sound clip from WXPR, where Rick got a little more than a minute of airtime giving a brief introduction to Ubuntu, giving listeners taste of what they can see on October [...]
Brainstorm Triage Jam IRC event in #ubuntu-brainstorm and #ubuntu-us-wi conducted by the Ubuntu Wisconsin LoCo Team. Sept 3, 2011 1700-2000 UTC (that’s 1200-1500 CDT) Lean how the various teams and upstream projects interact by triaging Brainstorm ideas. Meet new people who want to improve Ubuntu, too! No experience necessary, no coding skills necessary – all [...]
TL;DR Yes, Virginia, there is a way to boot your physical Ubuntu (or whatever) partition as a VirtualBox machine from within Windows. With port forwarding, no less. Background Last week I took receipt of a Dell XPS 15z. Intel Core … Continue reading →
As most of you are aware, Ubuntu is switching to the Unity desktop interface for Ubuntu 11.04. Although I am a fan of the KDE desktop, I felt that it was necessary to at least give Unity a shot, and see how it’s turning out.While the new Unit…
As I’ve mentioned before, I prefer KDE to GNOME, so I use Kubuntu on my primary computer (a laptop). I normally test releases of Kubuntu well before they’re actually released, in order to help the community in finding bugs – it̵…
My fiancée and I have decided that we should invest in a new tower computer for various reasons. One primary reason is to use it for multimedia (music streaming to the stereo/home theater, movies, videos, etc), as well as a data server around the house. In being an Intel fan, I ordered a nice quad-core Intel Core [...]
After having my Twitter account compromised, I promised to tell you all about some password management programs. I have tried out a few, and found one that stands above the rest – KeePassX. What is a password management program? Simply put, it&…