Installing and using jUploadr to upload photos on Ubuntu Linux

In a prior post, Quicker Flickr Uploads, I reported on my experiences using a faster photo upload tool recommended by Flickr. This report is about my experiences with that tool, jUploadr, on Ubuntu Linux. I suggest you read that earlier post for some background before continuing.
jUploadr is not in the standard set of [...]

How to install a specific version of Java on Ubuntu

Ubuntu 7.04 supports Java and by default uses the free software “gj” compiler and runtimes.
However, some applications require other versions of Java. I recently wanted to run one such application, jUploadr, and I’m writing this note on how to install other Java implementations.
jUploadr requires “a version of Sun’s JRE version 1.4.x or later.”
I ran into [...]

Quicker Flickr Uploads

Photos can spice up your blog. Some times they are essential. See for example Open Office 2007.
I use Flickr to manage my web photos. I started using it almost a year ago. Then a separate company, Flickr is now part of Yahoo, so I can access it with my Yahoo account.
I don’t have many [...]

Using the Kodak C300 Digital Camera on Ubuntu Linux

I take the pictures you see from time to time on this blog using a Kodak C300 Silver 3.2 MP Digital Camera that I bought from Newegg in February, 2006. I just wanted a cheap, simple digital camera. It cost about $90 and I’ve been quite pleased with it.
I decided today to see if it [...]

First K-12 Open Minds Conference October 9-11 2007 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

FYI, Steve Hargadon just sent me the following note that I want to share with you. It looks to be a great conference. I will be there and am looking forward to personally meeting Steve, Mike Huffman and others whom I so far know only via phone calls and their writings:
K-12 Open Source Conference October [...]

Call for Presenters – CUE.org’s Open Source Pavilion

FYI, Steve Hargadon just sent me the following note about the upcoming CUE (“Computer-Using Educators) conference:
OK, so the annual CUE.org conference (Palm Springs, California) is not until March of 2008, but we have to get potential presenters for the Open Source track to submit their presentation proposals by September 16th! Here’s the submission URL.

This [...]

links for 2007-09-14

Stevey’s Blog Rants: Rhino on Rails
At Google, “You have to play inside the fence defined by C++, Java, Python, and JavaScript.” The snake in the grass here is not Python…
(tags: open-source python)

Stevey’s Blog Rants: Rich Programmer Food
Compilers really *are* fun to write. I spent many years doing so.
(tags: open-source)

Linux News: Business: Bare-Bones Version of Ubuntu [...]