Just got back from Hudiksvall, Sweden today. Annika and I were there for a week basically so we could celebrate mid-summer with friends. It’s a bit odd riding home at 1am and it still being light out. It does get a bit dark but only for a couple hours. Photos will be on the Gallery shortly.

Only 3 weeks now till I leave for the States. I’ve got quite a lot to do before leaving but most of it should be taken care of in the next week and a half.

For those who hate ubuntu spatial and never want to see it again, you can issue this command WITHOUT any users logged into Gnome (GConf can’t be running.).

sudo gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/no_ubuntu_spatial true

The same is true for other settings as well. Also, if you want to make a setting mandetory then just change “defaults” to “mandatory” and users will be restricted to that setting. For other settings you’d probably need to change the type after “–type” and the value at the end.

I was just watching a report on CNN from outside Micheal Jackson’s Neverland ranch. Here’s what the reporter said:

“People have come form all around the World. We have talked to people from as far away as Mexico, Amsterdam, Norway…..”

They’re in California! Mexico is their neighbor! Anyway….

After a little searching, I found out how to import Evolution 1.4 settings and data in /home/$USER/evolution into 2.2.

All you have to do is go into the Gconf Configuration Tool and change the keys “version” and “last_version” under /app/evolution to 1.4.6. When you start Evolution it will find the folder ~/evolution and ask you if you’d like to import the old data and settings. I believe it over-writes the current settings.

Today I’m updating one of the computers at Sprachenatelier Berlin e.V. from Suse 9.2 using KDE to Ubuntu Hoary 5.04. Hopefully I won’t run into any problems I’ve tested everything i can think of. I’m sure I’ve forgotten something, though.

I just transferred my site to dreamhost.com. They offer much more than 1and1.com for less money. They don’t have telephone support but they answer emails really quickly. I’m very satisfied. I got the Monster Code deal that is 15.99 a month but am sharing that with 2 other people so it’s really cheap.