UPDATE: You can find the review here. Recently I’ve been contacted by Packt Publishing to review one of the books they published last month: OpenX Ad Server: Beginner’s Guide, by Murat Yilmaz. The book focuses on teaching web site administrators how to use and configure OpenX Ad Server, the largest publisher-side ad server in the
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UPDATE 4: Version 2.4 added support for printer models LBP6000 and LBP6018 and provides a better dependency handling. Please test it on older Ubuntu versions as it works perfectly on Ubuntu 11.04. UPDATE 3: Version 2.3 added support for Ubuntu 11.04. UPDATE 2: Due to popular demand version 2.2 now supports Ubuntu 10.10. Use the
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13 days ago I’ve bought another computer, thus reaching to number 3. My home network architecture is pretty simple: As you might have noticed, my computers are named after Star Trek: The Next Generation characters. Let me describe them in their chronological order. Picard is my former desktop which is now used primarily by my
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Launched almost one month ago, OpenOffice.org 3.2 will be available by default in Ubuntu in the 10.04 release. Of course, if you are eager to put your hands on it faster, you can check this article I wrote a few weeks ago. Anyway, this post is about the latest issue of Linux Identity Office, a
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I’ve promised to myself a few weeks ago that I wouldn’t talk about Apple’s iPad because a lot of bytes have been wasted for this subject by so many others (what about the ink levels?!). Although the subject isn’t new any more, the online journalists still talk and write about it like it’s the only
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After Facebook announced its XMPP chat protocol support I decided to give it a try and use it since I already used Pidgin as my instant messaging client. The settings are simple but somehow the average user finds them after some tedious Google searches. Here are the steps you should follow for setting up Facebook’s
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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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Here’s another one from Intel’s “Sponsors of tomorrow” which I think is actually the geekiest from the series.

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.