Ubuntu on John Stowers

One Month In France

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:29:04 +0000

ENAC

Hi Everyone, Its been a long time between blogging but I have an excuse. I have moved from Christchurch New Zealand , to ENAC , Toulouse, France . I have now been here for a month, working with the UAV team here.

Screen Envy?

The work has been really challenging, and I have settled into my routine, working towards some things I would like to demonstrate before I leave. I have spent a few weeks doing a lot of electronics design, updating the paparazzi autopilot board, the IMU, and the GPS boards. Nothing revolutionary, just some evolutionary improvements over the previous hardware.

Edgy Beta 1 Impressions

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:09:49 +0000

So I just upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu Edgy Beta 1. This is just a small list of my impressions so far;

USplash doesnt work :-(
My laptop hotkeys do not work anymore (so I cant change screen brightness)
The new theme and sound theme are very attractive
Compiz-freedesktop 0.2.0 works great, thanks to this guide
Boot is way faster, 10 seconds by my stopwatch
Suspend and resume is improved
- NetworkManager reconnects to networks on resume

Matlab and Simulink on Dapper

Thu, 11 May 2006 16:47:50 +0000

Note to self: If you need to unstall simulink on ubuntu dapper then make sure you install libxft1

Ubuntu Dapper Flight5

Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:33:05 +0000

Just upgraded to flight 5 and feeling quite positive about the state of ubuntu. Suspend is working agin on my laptop, and so is the SD card slot. I have included a screenshot below.

Also I plan to do a review of my laptop at some stage in the near future (Panasonic CF-R4).