A few weeks ago I bought an SSD because they were on sale. After backing up all my data and setting up my data HDDs, I installed my OSes. Windows installed fine, and so did Ubuntu – at least that was what I thought. After restarting from the install, I was dumped into a Windows-95-esque […]

If you’re reading this, you know what I mean. The power manager applet in Ubuntu never estimates your remaining battery time, and forces you to dig deep into the battery properties to find its current percentage. According to the maintainers of the applet, the problem is not a bug, rather a problem with the ACPI in the […]

HDD, SSD – What? A hard drive (HDD) is a computer component that utilizes spinning magnetic disks (platters) and read/write heads to store information permanently. Hard drives are what is known as non-volatile storage, meaning that the information is retained after the power is removed, such as when you turn your computer off. Hard drives have […]

Ubuntu 11.04 codename Natty Narwhal, which will be released in April, will implement many new and drastic changes to the OS, and they all have to do with one thing…Unity.