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	Phil's Blogservations Tuesday, September 05, 2006 Posted by philgomes 10:12 PM Installed Kubuntu Linux 6.06 Installed Kubuntu 6.06 On my way back from my annual fishing trip in the mountains, I made good on a promise that I made to my buddy Tim Tuck for about as long as I've been in LA — that I'd buy a computer from him. I picked it up — a Shuttle PC dream machine with a cinematic 16:10 monitor — and it was made-to-order: half the hard drive had Ubuntu Linux and the other half booted to Windows XP. After about a month of experimentation, I replaced the Ubuntu partition with its cousin Kubuntu. Why? A newfound preference for the KDE desktop over GNOME. One item continued to vex me, though... Kubuntu didn't seem to want to take full advantage of the cinematic aspect ratio. Objects on the screen that I knew to be square got "stretched." It's tough to "RTFM" when the "M" is potentially millions of pages. However, a Google search pointed me to a clever hack that someone once applied to a Dell laptop. Here are the initial results: This is my fifth Linux distribution, after having messed with Mandrake (now Mandriva), Red Hat, Slackware, and Ubuntu. Clearly, this will be an ongoing experiment. I'll put more and more findings up here over time. UPDATE: This and this fixed my MP3-decode problem Technorati Tags: linux, kubuntu, ubuntu | HOME | OBSESSIONS | FAQ | HEROES | CAREER | BLOG | CONTACT Note that the views expressed on this site do not necessarily reflect those of Phil's employer, its business partners, its clients, or anyone or anything that doesn't come from Phil's demented imagination. Hell, to be perfectly honest, even Phil disagrees with what he thinks sometimes. This site has virtually no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Clicking on a link doesn't automatically send a 1/2-cent donation to UNICEF. You can't buy, sell, auction, swap, find a date, win friends, influence people, cross the chasm, or decode the human genome using this site. You won't get free email. You won't win a free video game console. This site will not end world hunger, foster peace in the Middle East, help you smell better, teach you how to swing dance, or move the global economy from petroleum to hydrogen fuels. You'll learn a lot about this site's master, though, which amounts to a haphazard collection of strange and useless facts that pretty much won't help you at all.	ABOUT THIS BLOG This is the blog of Phil Gomes, SVP with Edelman Digital and senior advisor to the Society for New Communications Research. This blog not only discusses PR and media matters, but Phil's everyday observations about a variety of topics. Phil currently resides in Chicago, IL. EMAIL phil[at] philgomes.com View my page on PROpenMic SYNDICATE Feedburner ARCHIVE YAHOO! IM SKYPE WISH LIST PITCH POLICY MY PHOTOS www.flickr.com Photostream RSS Enter your Email Powered by FeedBlitz COMMENT AND TRACKBACK POLICY Comments and trackbacks are unmoderated, though I will delete the patently offensive ones. Any comments and trackbacks are the opinions of the individual writer of those comments and trackbacks, and not those of Phil Gomes, his employer, its clients, or its business partners. If you have a bone to pick, bug the people who wrote the comment or trackback.