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 […]

Reducing the stress of configuration management with Git

I have previously written about using Git to add revision history to existing rsync backups. Having performed a number of configuration changes and system upgrades recently, I have found another use of Git which has proven invaluable. It’s a fairly obvious hack, but it turns out that turning selected configuration directories (for example /etc/apache2/ and […]

Marcus Povey

I have previously written about using Git to add revision history to existing rsync backups. Having performed a number of configuration changes and system upgrades recently, I have found another use of Git which has proven invaluable. It’s a fairly obvious hack, but it turns out that turning selected configuration directories (for example /etc/apache2/ and […]