30dc linux

Wow! that is an achievement.. Time to make a Virtual machine with it? - Juan Pablo

Did you had any luck with the ranktracker module? been having trouble with it under linux(ubuntu) - Jorge Blanco

I can run ranktracker but I don't get it fully loaded it times out. gonna try again tomorrow, will let you know how it goes. - Kittie Walker

I'm a fan of Linux, but this is not nice: "Some members of the Linux community relentlessly flamed a woman who dropped out of college after finding her laptop -- which was running Ubuntu -- didn't work as expected. Others came to her defense, but not before she was dismissed as "stupid" and "ignorant."" The stories of this have received at least 4600 diggs and 1800 comments so far. - Isha (Marysia)

So she never even knew about the sessions that she didn't turn up for - she didn't voluntarily drop out at all. I don't see why she should have to learn how to use linux at the same time as starting a new college course. She paid >$1k for the laptop. We can blame Dell, but I'm not proud of being part of the Linux-using community when people act like this. - Isha (Marysia)

That's including Warships. One (tongue-in-cheek) poster writes: "I'm shocked to find that Windows based computers are subject to virus infections! SHOCKED!" :D - Isha (Marysia)

I just installed Songbird this morning, but haven't had time to test (play) with it yet ... I suspect I'll finally get to it tonight. IMTW is in my list of 'casts, I'll let you know if/how I get it subscribed. - Eric Fox

I use windows emulation with virtualbox. It is a tad slower, but the air plataform for windows works way better. I believe the linux port of AIR does not make justice for the Market Samurai - Jorge Blanco

Thanks Jorge - I've posted your reply (attributed) in the Market Samurai forum where the question was asked - hope that's ok. Any other replies are most welcome - either here or in the Market Samurai forum http://www.noblesamurai.com/forum... or both. - Isha (Marysia)

I used PlayOnLinux to install iTunes 7.7.1.11 on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04. The reason I did this was to get the bonus that Ed Dale is saying comes with the iTunes feed of the Internet Marketing This Week podcast at http://www.internetmarketingthisweek.com . I just ignored the error about CD/DVD burning drivers missing, and made sure to install Wine Gecko. Then within iTunes I went to the iTunes store and browsed to the IMTW podcast to subscribe to it. I'm sure this isn't the only way to accomplish this, but it was fairly easy and works to solve the problem. - ThisGuyDoug

Anyone know what the bonus is? I tend to zone out (or fall asleep) when I'm trying to listen to this sort of thing (I'd rather read them or watch a great presentation) so don't want to go to all the trouble of doing this if the bonus is something Mac connected or anything else not directly connected to the 30dc. - Isha (Marysia)

The bonus is not out yet (I think). iTunes through Wine is not so smooth, but it gets the job done. - Jorge Blanco

Get it here: http://labs.adobe.com/downloa... Remove the Alpha first or it will throw up an error. You'll have to do it through the package manager, or at least I did. - Marc

Not really 30DC related, but I thought the Linux group might find this interesting. - ThisGuyDoug

Tried Chrome on Windows, not very impressed thus far - Marc

Yes, this happened to me with several of them - Isha (Marysia)

Thanks John will give that a try. - Marc

tell us more, please, James - Isha (Marysia)

looks like I should have installed Ubuntu instead of the latest Suse... - Isha (Marysia)

I finally figured out the problem... When uninstalling the air apps, you need to do it through Synaptic, or on the command line with apt. Otherwise the new package can't register itself. Once I I did that the problem went away... - John Serra

Time tracking is a great tool when used correctly, and can actually save you time. And as we all know; time=money. - Marc

Hector - http://friendfeed.com/hsanche... - has added a really useful looking post to this thread - using VirtualBox, & Windows virtual machine, his MarketSamurai is "Working like a charm!" http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com/forums... - Isha (Marysia)

May I ask what you are using for a VM, what distro is your host, Ubuntu maybe..? - John Serra

I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 with the free xVM VirtualBox form Sun. You can probably use the VirtualBox found in Applications Add/Remove for this, I only use the Sun version because it gives me access to the USB ports for iTunes. Unfortunately, you also need a valid copy of Windows to install in the VM. - Eric Fox

It doesn't run well on Mandrake - really slow and clunky. In desperation I've gone into my Windows partition on my laptop :-( - Isha (Marysia)

Have anyone tried using the Windows version trhough WINE? - Christoffer Lejdborg

I believe you need to install the 32 bit libraries for that to work. - John Serra

Several other 30dc people are using ubuntu. If you go to 30dc forums there's a pull-down menu "Search" near the top. Search for "ubuntu" & you'll see who else is using ubuntu. I'm having no problems with Mandrake (except piclens) but Suse isn't going so well (laptop) - Isha (Marysia)