In Linux sometimes your applications end up hanging. For some reason they just don’t work all of a sudden. Or they are totally unresponsive. If and when that happens don’t panic. I’ve been there and dealt with that too.
When almost the entire screen freezes I launch a virtual terminal by pressing CTRL-ALT-F1 and then look for the process number of the application which I think triggered it. Usually it’s firefox or what. In any case, looking for the process number could be done by listing them all with the ps command and …read more

If you’re using Chromium, the developer edition of the Google Chrome browser, then it’s your lucky weekend. There are new Chrome themes to choose from. Themes include Anna Sui and Viviene Westwood styles. Anime and such kinds of things are also present as distinct themes you could download to personalize your browser. That includes theme with Hatsune Miku, K-on and Super Monkey Ball.
Another eyecandy is the wallpaper clocks you could install. If you are familiar with Screenlets already then that’s good for you because you need them for this. If not, the Ubuntu …read more

There were some models of mobile phones that had Linux on them. It was how many years ago when Motorola released some, and I think it was also possible to have Ubuntu on Palm mobile phones, if I recall correctly. Anyhow, these past few days had something to say about Linux and mobile phone manufacturers such as Nokia and Samsung, aside from Palm, RIM and HTC. And also something about the dwindling marketshare of Microsoft’s smartphones.
There’s a review of Nokia’s N900. From the looks of things, Nokia will be using Maemo rather than Symbian on its …read more

Last year there were news about Nokia 770 and Debian Linux. A while ago I read about Ubuntu coming to Nokia 800. From the article, Ubuntu is already running on an SD card. Sounds exciting. It’s just that the Nokia 800 will probably be a high-end consumer device here in the country if ever they sell it in the Philippines. On the website its price is indicated as USD 299.99 already, which is several thousand pesos cheaper than the Asus EEE so even though the Nokia 800 might be an interesting proposition to new …read more