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So looking at the version of firefox that I had I realized that it’s OLD. I uninstalled the old version (I think) and installed the more up-to-date one. And while I did that I noticed that Songbird got uninstalled. WHOOPS! No biggy, reinstalled perfectly.

Now I have the latest version of Firefox.

I also removed the little desktop folder off the desktop and kept icons… I have to think of using a dock. Going to look for a decent one under KDE. SO that is about all I did for today.

So we’re past the 30 days of linux. So now with the reinstall… Or Install of a new desktop method, I of course had to install some apps and things that were necessary. And a lot of them were basically the same as before some are a little different.

One thing I didn’t mention is that in order to get the updates for the wireless, I actually had to create a network connection in the system settings area to get it going, but it  a real simple thing to get going.

This is a run down of what I did today and a little explanation of some things as well. Read the rest of this entry »

Well here it is, te 30th day and what am I doing? I am running Kubuntu instead of Ubuntu. Yet another new experimentation it seems, yet I am STILL not back under Windows!

I found that Kubuntu uses a lot of the same apps I was using before, Open Office is still there.. Oh wait, no it doesn’t no FireFox. It uses Konqueror as it’s web browser by default. But check this out, all those nifty things I was doing under Gnome that required extras, it’s all native here under KDE 4. Here’s some of the screen shots. I will report more about what I had installed and stuff tomorrow. Read on for the little gallery of pics.

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Today I played with Conky a liittle more . I got way too frustrated with the weather script and gave up for now. Basically what was happening was the 2 that I found either would not work or would pull the weather from Munich, Germany and give only celsius temperatures. So I made it very  simple.

I may play with layout some more later. But for now this is what it is. Shows information I personally need to know about my machine. And of course what the time is. I think I should put the clock back on the panel because most of the work I do covers up the desktop and I always have to minimize to see what time it is. Read the rest of this entry »