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How to fix cursor jumping in Ubuntu

Posted on July 5th, 2009 at 12:59.

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Since I installed Ubuntu on my laptop (an Asus X55sv with Intel Core 2 Duo T7500) a few months ago, I still faced one bug I was ashamed to write about because I wasn’t sure if it was a bug or just my fingers made the strange thing happen from time to time. I am [...]

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Right click not working in Firefox 3.5

Posted on July 4th, 2009 at 14:20.

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For those of you who have installed (updated to) the new Firefox 3.5 and have problems with using the right click (the contextual menu not showing up) the solution to fix this is to get rid of the Yahoo Toolbar. From my brief experience with it on Windows (Firefox 3.5 is not available yet in [...]

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How to install Ubuntu Desktop Edition

Posted on June 24th, 2009 at 23:00.

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This is tutorial number 1 in the series of Linux tutorials for Windows users: How to install Ubuntu Desktop Edition. Even if the process itself is pretty simple (there are only some clicks to be made and a form to complete), there are some things that need to be made clear for the new user [...]

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How to convert your physical machine into a virtual machine using VMware Converter

Posted on June 7th, 2009 at 16:50.

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How many times did you want to build yourself a virtual machine that would resemble your old physical machine, with the other OS on? How many times have you abandoned the thought because you didn’t have the time to reinstall all the programs that were up and running on the physical one? Well, your worries [...]

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How to install Oracle Application Express 3.1.2 on Oracle Database 10g XE

Posted on May 24th, 2009 at 18:16.

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Before upgrading to Oracle APEX 3.1.2 from the Oracle APEX 2.1 that comes with Oracle Database 10g XE you should carefully read this page to know all the facts that you might loose and win. After that follow the next guide. The Oracle’s one has a minor problem.

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vsFTPd and symbolic links

Posted on May 23rd, 2009 at 18:20.

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vsFTPd is probably the most secure FTP daemon that exists for *nix operating systems and that is shipped with a number of Linux distributions as the default FTP server. Given the fact that its purpose is offering an FTP daemon implementation with regards to security, there are some limitations. One of these limitations includes the [...]

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How to install VMware Server 2.0.1 on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

Posted on May 16th, 2009 at 11:48.

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I wrote a small script that will help you install VMware Server 2.0.1 (build 156745) on Ubuntu 9.04 and later without any efforts. The install script needs a patch file for this VMWare Server version that is automatically downloaded from my server.

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How to send null values in soapUI requests

Posted on May 16th, 2009 at 0:58.

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soapUI is a pretty useful web service testing tool that can help you generate a multitude of tests like load testing, functional testing, data consistency testing and many more. I have started using it for real two days ago when I needed to test some SOAP web services for work. The main issue that kept [...]

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