My JoGLE Route

Here is a breakdown of the proposed route. It started as an edited reverse version of Rob and Jon’s LeJOG route from 2010. Although from reading alot of the CTC forum its been modified alot too to achieve some aims of getting into Wigan to see family on the way and also to try and […]

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Ubuntu Unity 11.10 windows slow and laggy with ATI and NVidia GPU’s

I’ve spent alot of today playing with Ubuntu and Unity, I noticed that when Zooming in, the graphics tore and windows where slow to drag. I found this on the Ubuntu forums which seems to do the trick and make it super smooth. ATI Radeon GPU’s Install fglrx driver (stock driver is choppy…); to do […]

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Is too much choice in Linux distro’s a problem?

Ubuntu really opened up Linux again for me, but since getting 11.04 (Natty) working well for me with Unity I’ve read many posts regarding Unity vs Gnome Shell. Both of which change the way the desktop works quite significantly and for some people not in a good way. Almost changing the desktop to work like […]

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Discovering Linux – again

For as long as I can remember owning a PC I have experimented with Linux in its various guises. Mainly as an alternative to the mainstream Windows, a way to get my work done and with the hope the different OS may use the hardware I have more efficiently or at least appear faster. My […]