Problems with Ubuntu’s new shopping lens

Canonical has come in for a little bit of heat for the inclusion of the Unity Shopping Lens into the latest release of Ubuntu. This new tool, installed and switched on by default (although you can turn it off if you want), extends desktop searches online. The upshot being that when looking for a file […]

Marcus Povey

Canonical has come in for a little bit of heat for the inclusion of the Unity Shopping Lens into the latest release of Ubuntu. This new tool, installed and switched on by default (although you can turn it off if you want), extends desktop searches online. The upshot being that when looking for a file […]

Time is broken, we need to fix it

Once upon a time, time was, by and large, governed by the sun. Least ways it used to be, but then came the railways. Y’see the trouble was that time in those days, or at least our measurement of it, was typically read off the sundial in the town square. Since the angle of the […]

Marcus Povey

Once upon a time, time was, by and large, governed by the sun. Least ways it used to be, but then came the railways. Y’see the trouble was that time in those days, or at least our measurement of it, was typically read off the sundial in the town square. Since the angle of the […]

Playing around with inotify

Inotify is a Linux subsystem which monitors the filesystem for changes, and provides a way to trigger actions when it does. This is handy, since it means that your program/demon can avoid polling for changes constantly, making it more efficient and reliable. As an aside, this is how the Linux Dropbox tool works. I was […]

Marcus Povey

Inotify is a Linux subsystem which monitors the filesystem for changes, and provides a way to trigger actions when it does. This is handy, since it means that your program/demon can avoid polling for changes constantly, making it more efficient and reliable. As an aside, this is how the Linux Dropbox tool works. I was […]