Sametime on Pidgin

Work uses Lotus groupware. So I needed my IM client to connect to Sametime at work. Yes Pidgin and Empathy do that, but they were not showing me all my online contacts. After some browsing around it turned out that the meanwhile library had the bug in it and I had to get the source code for it and compile it to get the fix because the new packages were not released yet. I'm getting to be a geek now.

Remote desktop from Ubuntu to Windows

When I first tried to remote into my work machine, man that thing was slow. My good pal helped me figure out a set of command line options to make it usable. The main things to do were to set the command line option to have rdesktop compress the data, and to minimize the themes on my Windows machine. Now I feel like the remote experience is faster on my Ubuntu machine than it was from my Windows machines... ofcourse my Windows machines had much slower hardware.

Linux Distros

So on my new machine, I installed Ubuntu Maverick. Felt like I should go with the latest out there. Right? I also played with some other live cds and I really liked Linux Mint. The package management and system settings are better laid out and accessible.

The first few days were nice and shiny and calm. Then I started doing some real stuff on my new machine.