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New toys for Linux

Posted on December 11th, 2009 at 16:13.

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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 [...]

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Adobe Reader in Ubuntu

Posted on November 10th, 2009 at 22:41.

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For those of you who want to install Adobe Reader in Ubuntu, there are two solutions available: install it using the repositories or download the application from Adobe. If you’ve had problems opening PDF files in Firefox after you’ve installed Adobe Reader you will also find how to fix them.

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Flipped images from your webcam in Ubuntu?

Posted on November 5th, 2009 at 18:07.

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Some of you (and me also) have experienced problems with certain laptop webcams on Ubuntu because some of them were mounted upside down. I have posted a solution for fixing this on the blog, but apparently it’s not quite the best way to obtain the desired results because it involves patching the kernel. And since [...]

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How to install VMware Server 2.0.x on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

Posted on October 30th, 2009 at 4:13.

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UPDATE 2: The script has been updated to work with kernels 2.6.32 too. Please post your comments regarding kernel 2.6.32 here. UPDATE: The script which is now used for this operation has been updated to support Fedora and openSUSE too. Also the patch used is the one made by Ramon de Carvalho Valle, not the [...]

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How to install VMware Server 2.0.2 on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

Posted on October 28th, 2009 at 17:36.

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The same script I wrote in order to help users install VMware Server 2.0.1 (build 156745) on Ubuntu 9.04 can be used for the latest release from VMware: VMware Server 2.0.2 (build 203138). In order to install the server, just follow these instructions: Download your copy of VMware Server (.gz archive) and obtain your license [...]

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Python and Pidgin’s status on Ubuntu (Linux)

Posted on August 26th, 2009 at 18:01.

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If you remember Fortune and Pidgin’s status on Ubuntu (Linux), Tudor has found a better solution to accomplish this using Python. I did argue with him a bit regarding the number of requests made (you can see that in the comments on his blog post) but finally I would agree that his solution was better [...]

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Resetting Windows passwords for every user

Posted on August 17th, 2009 at 22:13.

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I am sure that you all wondered sometime how can a Windows password be broken with physical access to the machine. I know this isn’t quite hacking, but it is a useful thing in many situations: you have forgotten your administrator password; a zealous/envious system administrator didn’t want to give you the passwords after he [...]

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How to fix Adobe AIR’s installation on Ubuntu 9.04

Posted on August 16th, 2009 at 23:24.

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I just want to start this article by emphasizing that I am not a fan of Adobe’s new products like Adobe AIR or Flex. They eat two buckets of RAM for some shiny effects that really don’t deserve this kind of resources. The explanation is rather simple: being new products, they are still full of [...]

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Fortune and Pidgin’s status on Ubuntu (Linux)

Posted on August 7th, 2009 at 18:17.

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Following the post about my laziness and Tudor’s comment from here, I went on to study how fortune works and I have found a way to use it to change your status in Pidgin using posts from your WordPress blog. It’s quite neat if you think and also this trick could bring you more traffic [...]

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Configuring Eclipse for J2EE development

Posted on August 4th, 2009 at 12:01.

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Starting to learn about Servlets and JSP from “Head First Servlets and JSP 2nd edition“, I have reached a level where just editing my files from gedit wouldn’t suffice, as typos began to generate frustrations on my side. Although this is the recommended way by the book authors to build your projects while learning, which [...]

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Google Desktop, Google Chrome and Google Gadgets in Ubuntu

Posted on August 1st, 2009 at 15:39.

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Looking to see if Google Desktop is now available for Linux I have discovered some Google goodies. Not only that they have ported this nice desktop companion software to Linux, they have also included in their repositories Google Gadgets (using both GTK and Qt, but it is a little buggy as some of the widgets [...]

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VirtualBox USB support

Posted on July 31st, 2009 at 21:44.

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Recently I became a fan of VirtualBox, the virtualization platform from Sun Microsystems. It’s robust, it has an extremely small memory foot-print comparing it to other similar virtual managers and it has some great features. You can find more about it on its homepage. Yesterday I have updated VirtualBox from 2.2.4 to 3.1. Unfortunately, the [...]

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Resolving vertically flipped images from webcams in Ubuntu

Posted on July 31st, 2009 at 1:53.

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UPDATE 2: I strongly recommend against using this patch any more and relaying on the solution provided by UPDATE 1. UPDATE 1: Please check the solution from here as it represents the correct approach for fixing this problem in Ubuntu (all releases). Also, the patch from this post doesn’t work for the kernel included in [...]

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