Since my upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10 my notebook’s battery life went considerably down. In my post Battery life of FSC Amilo si1520: Windows Vista vs. Ubuntu 7.04 I was mentioning a battery life of about 3:00 hours in normal conditions on my FSC Amilo si1520, with a dimmed screen and wifi off it was even […]
Monthly Archives: January 2008
German “Pop Idol” – Part I
Here some videos of German Pop Idol casting shows. You don’t need to know any German to understand how talent free some of my compatriots are. Raymund really thought he can make it. Poor guy! Does he not have friends who can tell him, that he can not sing nor dance? Raymund for Superstar [edit] […]
Spicebird – Information & Communication Center
A few days ago the guys at Synovel released Spicebird. It integrates the excellent programs Mozilla Thunderbird (email), Sunbird (desktop calendar) and Xmpp4moz (instant messaging). I am using the first two myself on Ubuntu 7.10. Well, instead of Sunbird I am using Lightning, which is integrating in Thunderbird as a plug-in.