James Gifford
Last seen March 26, 2018, 10:39 a.m.

Website: http://jamesrgifford.com/
Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Using openbox and GNOME2: AKA my current setup
May 7, 2011, 4:55 p.m. by James Gifford

So, I've got a netbook as my main machine. And it's wimpy, even for a netbook. However, I've discovered a trick that makes it very fast. And I mean <strong>fast</strong>. Here's the trick: Use GNOME2 and <a href="http://openbox.org/">openbox</a>. Here's how to do that. Run the following in a terminal (Alt-F2, then <code>gnome-terminal</code>) and then copy and paste the following. <code>sudo ...


Unity Through The Ages: Then And Now
May 1, 2011, 2:29 p.m. by James Gifford

Considering how Unity is less than a year old, that seems like a bit of a... I don't know. I've been using Unity since it came out in the Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Remix. It was fun. I liked it. [caption id="attachment_513" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="The Old 10.10 Unity"]<a href="http://2buntu.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/unity-old-1.png"><img src="http://2buntu.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/unity-old-1-300x175.png" /></a>[/caption] It was nice. But it was ssslloowwwww. Buggy. That launcher ...


Repository for Unity QuickLists
April 25, 2011, 4:33 p.m. by James Gifford

One of the cool new features (Among many) in Unity in 11.04 (Hereafter referred to as "Natty") is <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/LauncherAPI#Static Quicklist entries">QuickLists</a>. QuickLists are this awesome new feature that let you have shortcuts in your Unity Launcher. I was a little bored today, so I created a <a href="https://launchpad.net/unity-quicklist-examples">project on launchpad</a> with some cool examples. So I decided "Hey, lets ...


Adventures Through SUSE, or "Why I went back to Ubuntu".
April 23, 2011, 10:31 p.m. by James Gifford

You're probably going to be all like "Whut is up with this title man, I mean seriously dude, it's an <em>UBUNTU</em> blog, not some openSUSE thing." And you'd be right to be saying that. However, after all I went through (Namely, I had a half-dozen issues with Natty, Maverick and the OS known to me as "Wind0zes" not playing nice ...


Pianobar: Pandora From the Command Line, Without Flash!
April 18, 2011, 3:59 p.m. by James Gifford

I'm one of those <a href="http://pandora.com">Pandora</a> nuts, and I've had an issue with using Pandora, because it's so slooowwww with Flash, even on Linux. And with my limited computer resources, I kinda need to keep things lean and mean. So I was estatic once I found out about <a href="https://github.com/PromyLOPh/pianobar">Pianobar</a>. To install it, open up a terminal (Alt-F2, then <code>gnome-terminal</code>) ...


Yet another meet and greet
April 15, 2011, 3 p.m. by James Gifford

First, I'm glad to be a part of the "elite team of bloggers", as Roland put it. So, who am I? I'm a Ubuntu user (I've heard the words "Ubuntu Fanboy" used in connection to my name), FOSS lover (It's true) and a<a href="http://askubuntu.com/users/6005/james-gifford">AskUbuntu guy</a>. I'm more or less addicted to <a href="http://twitter.com/jrgifford">Twitter</a>, system tweaking, Ruby, and then some basic ...


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