Democracytv

The upgrade for DemocracyTV (version series .8 to version series .9) comes from the backport repository of Ubuntu edgy eft. When I installed this, DemocracyTV stopped working so I reinstalled the old version. I found, on the DemocracyTV home page instructions for installing the latest version of DemocracyTV [ http://www.getdemocracy.com/downloads/ubuntu.php ]. I followed these instructions and everything worked fine. The new version of democracyTV looks to have some nice features.

web page to pdf with Linux

I often save web pages for later detail reading. This results in a lot of directories since the web page images are put into a separate direcotry.

I have found that if I print to a file I get a post script version (i.e. name.ps) of the web page. I then use the ps2pdf13 utility and create a pdf file. Works like a charm.

I also found that I can combine several separately printed (to a file) pages into one pdf by first combining the files:

cat name1.ps name 2.ps > final_name.ps
ps2pdf13 final_name.ps

This results in final_name.pdf which contains name1 and name2 (can have more than two files).

dsl on toshiba a105-s1013 laptop

I tried running the latest version od dsl (v3.3) on my laptop but it got hung up on the hardware during the boot. When I tried dsl-n (v0.3 rc4) it booted fine. I need to run ndiswrapper to get the wifi card working - Ubuntu has build in driver modules for my driver so I have become a bit 'spoiled'.