Monthly Archives: May 2010

Acoustic Assaultcast: Free Culture

Back in March, I was invited by my friend Roman Verzub to the first episode of The Acoustic Assaultcast to talk about music and free culture.

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    HOWTO: Sync Notes Between Tomboy and Conboy with Snowy [UPDATED]

    Updated: I’ve updated this guide to detail a proper sync with Snowy, rather than the old Unison hack (below), since Conboy now supports more than just Ubuntu One, and an experimental version Snowy is operational.

    I’ve been a regular user of the fantastic Tomboy note-taking application since I replaced my Palm Pilot with a Nokia …

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      WIND Mobile Launches Reasonable Data Plans In Canada

      WIND Mobile’s pricing plans brought a breath of fresh air to the Canadian wireless landscape last December, but customers have been asking for less expensive data. WIND offered a great $35/month unlimited data add-on, but nothing below that for general purpose data.

      Well, today, WIND announced new data add-ons. Just like their voice plans (and …

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        SOLUTION: Firefox Fails When Upgrading After Using Mozilla PPA

        This is a quick fix for a problem I had when upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04, after having used the Mozilla PPA.

        The Firefox upgrade failed during the distribution upgrade process (from 9.10 to 10.04). I was told to run `dpkg -a –configure`, and the same error occurred again (it’s in bold).

        $ sudo dpkg -a –configure
        Setting …

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