This is short but sweet. I'm entering this blog from a coffee shop using my PDA.
I know it's not a first, but I think it's cool.
Technology Rocks When It Works
Wed, 2005-09-28 15:38 — The Nose
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What PDA?
Did you get a new pda? IIRC you had some kind of Windows CE/Pocket PC device. Did you recently get a wifi card for it?
No, not new
It's the same Dell AXIM I've had for a while, but I never really bothered with the WiFi. I work on a exponential learning curve, which doesn't mean so much that I learn really fast, rather I get off to a slow start. For example, I just recieved my UBUNTU disks in the mail, and although I got the distro installed, I can't figure out some minor tasks, like downloading and unzipping stuff.
But like a said, I get off to a slow start while self-teaching, but eventually I'll get it figured out.
Yeah, when it works ;)
I am not familiar with the base ubuntu install, but there are several ways to unzip a .zip file in linux. This is assuming you actually want a zip, since most linux stuff uses .tar.gz or .tgz or .tar.bz. These are different formats than zip.
If your using the Gnome window manager it has a built in archive utility called "file roller" I believe. If you download a file say with a browser you should have the option to open with file roller in the download prompt. Otherwise you can use the file manager to navigate to the compressed file and double click. If your using kde, it should be the same.
From the command line you an unzip a .zip file with the "unzip" command assuming that package is installed.
Now, perhaps the original goal was not to download and unzip stuff, but needing to know how to find and install new packages for ubuntu. That is a different matter entirely, since there is a package management system that doesn't require you handling files manually in this this way.