Acrobat 7.0 in ubuntu 6.06 amd64

In the following thread about programs that do not work/are not available under Dapper Drake 64-bit edition - Ubuntu Forums you can find a wonderful gem in the –force-architecture flag.
Use the command:$ dpkg -i –force-architecture some_archive_for_i386_deb
and install files that are not yet available for amd64. I did and installed Adobe’s Acrobat Reader 7.0, although [...]

*-util is your friend

Back in the old days of config files, you had to manually edit various .cfg files in order to fix everything and make it work. This still works today, but why bother? This is the kind of automaticity that I would like to see more of in newer linux distributions.
Take, for example, [...]

Proud Ubuntu User #3273

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Ubuntu 6.06 Is Current Desktop Linux Champ - Yahoo! News

Ubuntu 6.06 Is Current Desktop Linux Champ - Yahoo! News
And indeed, it is my choice of desktop. Although the past postings have been “yes, but”, “it works now, it does not work in 10 minutes”, all these mishaps should be attributed to hardware, rather than software problems and incompatibilities.
Take for example, my earlier posting [...]

No, i don’t want drake. Breezy is fine for me!

No, I don’t want to upgrade to dapper. Just give me my trusted breezy badger.
As I have already written in past postings, I was able (after some work) to get an old Pentium 3 box running with the latest 6.06 LTS dapper drake. I was also able to install the drake on a [...]

Legends of the fall

It was sad to watch a great player like Zidane end his career in such a low note last night at the final game against Italy.Perhaps, his send-off was part of the reason team France could not score an extra goal and take the trophy home.
Passions run high during the game, emotions can make you [...]

Gnomebaker saga!

The Gnome project’s cdrecording application is a nifty little thing called gnomebaker. Nice little app, looks like a lot like k3b (or k3b looks like gnomebaker a lot—depending on your choice of platforms).
As advertised, it can read various lossy and lossless formats, including ogg, mp3 flac etc. However, as I discovered to my [...]