Since I’m against upgrading my systems to Ubuntu 9.10, when it comes to the OpenOffice.org office suite I am stuck with the 3.0 version from Jaunty’s repositories. Therefore, if I want to put my hands on a newer release of OpenOffice the only way to do this is to use the packages provided by Oracle [...]
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After I had installed Firefox 3.6 on my Ubuntu machines I noticed that when I would want to open the FTP bookmarks saved in Nautilus those targets would open in tabs from Firefox. The problem with this approach was that I couldn’t edit files (create, update, delete) the way I could with Nautilus. After some [...]
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Some of you might know that the CPUs available these days adjust their frequency according to your computing needs, allowing you to save power by not using the maximum capacity of your processor if there isn’t such a need. Of course, this happens only when your operating system includes the software needed to access this [...]
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Seeing the success I have encountered with the blog post about installing VMware Server on Ubuntu Karmic Koala and helped by Ramon de Carvalho Valle with a better patch regarding the installation of the virtualization server on the newer kernels found in three of the most popular Linux distributions – Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE – [...]
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Here’s another one from Intel’s “Sponsors of tomorrow” which I think is actually the geekiest from the series.
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The series is already a classic. You can watch more on www.apple.com/getamac. This one is called “Broken Promises” and as one who has tried Windows 7 I can tell you that the ad is not far away from the truth.
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Twitter became a trend nowadays when almost everything important is being found out via this social-networking micro-blogging service. And now with Google’s real time search-results that includes tweets too, Twitter is recognised as a powerful platform by even the Internet’s giant. Since your (and mine too) online presence might include a few tweets a day, [...]
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Starting to work on my diploma project my setup required that I installed Oracle 10g XE and OC4J. For a while now Oracle has started to offer *.deb packages and to host a repository for Debian-based Linux distributions, which means that they have gained the maturity to be used in enterprise environments.
The installation of both [...]
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The ad for this week is one for Intel. This new advertising campaign for Intel doesn’t feature a product anymore, its focus being on Intel’s culture. Taglined “Sponsors of Tomorrow”, the campaign showcases Intel’s engineering achievements rather than the products it makes. The people responsible for this new ad series are Venables Bell & Partners, [...]
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My new blog feed is now accessible through the following two addresses:
http://feeds.cotescu.com/raducotescu
http://radu.cotescu.com/feed (redirect to the first link)
Please change your RSS links accordingly.
Thank you!
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Google Chrome
Two days ago, on December 9th, Google has launched the beta version for its Chrome browser for Linux and Mac machines. For the ones having Chrome already installed in Ubuntu by using the google-chrome-unstable package, they can switch to google-chrome-beta without loosing any of their settings. For the ones wanting to install the browser, [...]


