So I have finally got around to relaunching jaiharrison.com, my personal domain. As there’s been nothing here for a long time the only use the domain has had is to serve as a more personal means of contact (an address for e-mail, Jabber, MSN). Hopefully I’ll make more use of my address on the web now.
I’m a little late for the post-installation craze that was happening on the Ubuntu-UK Planet just under a month ago but I would still like to participate so here goes. With every new release of Ubuntu I always perform a clean installation and these are the packages and changes that I made with Intrepid:
- Install the following packages: wine, xchat, gnome do, filezilla, notecase, vlc, eclipse, virtualbox ose, unrar, flashplugin-nonfree, java, pidgin-libnotify, handbrake, crossover, gmountiso
The proprietary components I installed are CrossOver, Java, Flash and Unrar.
- CrossOver – They offered a freeware version temporarily and so I figured I’d take a look – I haven’t used it since experimenting with it. Since removed.
- Java – Required as part of one of my modules on my Computer Science course (hence I installed eclipse was to make development using it easier).
- Flash – Sadly it seems to be pretty essential on the internet
- Unrar – For the less educated that choose to package files in RAR format
I also installed a proprietary Windows application, ImgBurn, to handle burning specific ISOs and ripping specific discs that the Ubuntu tools seem to think are broken.
Furthermore to clean the system up a little I remove a lot of the applets from the top GNOME bar along with the shortcuts (as I use Gnome Do to launch applications) and I reorganise my home directory like so:
~/Documents ~/Documents/Public ~/Documents/Templates ~/Multimedia ~/Multimedia/Examples ~/Multimedia/Music ~/Multimedia/Pictures ~/Multimedia/Video
Feel free to post any comments or criticism.
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