Archive for 'Linux'

Gitosis and read-only Git repositories

Posted on July 26th, 2010 at 20:50.

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When I’ve started working with Git, besides using the quick how-to guides from the official site, I’ve also wanted to read a more detailed book about how this distributed VCS tool should be used in order to benefit from all of its functionalities. One of these books is Pro Git by Scott Chacon, from Apress. [...]

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A few clarifications about VMware Server and the Linux kernels

Posted on July 2nd, 2010 at 12:12.

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Since Ubuntu 9.04 appeared back in April, 2009, I’ve started building different scripts that use community supplied patches in order to make the install process of VMware Server as easy as it was supposed to be. Still it seems that many of the users of my scripts misinterpret the help I offered by asking questions [...]

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Using VirtualBox for virtualizing servers

Posted on May 27th, 2010 at 1:07.

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A considerable amount of my diploma project runs on several virtual machines, due to the lack of multiple physical machines required for the job. Of course, Riker isn’t tailored for production regarding this project, but it was built specifically to allow me to develop the code without restrictions. For a load under 10 users I [...]

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OpenOffice.org 3, Ubuntu and Romanian fonts

Posted on May 16th, 2010 at 18:41.

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Having to write an article dealing with a part of my diploma project for the Students’ Papers Session in my University, I discovered that some fonts (particularly “ș” and “ț”) were displayed awkward in Writer, the word processing software from OpenOffice.org. By awkward I mean that “ș” and “ț” were using other fonts than “s” [...]

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Booting Ubuntu from an USB stick

Posted on May 12th, 2010 at 0:36.

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Booting Ubuntu from an USB stick is both fast and convenient: fast because an USB stick definitely has better R/W speeds than CDs, convenient because you can alter those files for how many times you want without buying several storage mediums (you could use a CD-RW, but that still would be slow). Nowadays USB sticks [...]

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Automated cPanel backup

Posted on May 7th, 2010 at 3:07.

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A great man once said: Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;) While it works for him, for us pure mortals this trick doesn’t get the job done. That’s why we have to use backups. Protecting your data is [...]

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Where has Java gone from Lucid?

Posted on April 22nd, 2010 at 20:11.

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Apparently the Java packages coming from Sun (or Oracle for the matter) have been moved to the Partner repositories starting with the 10.04 release of Ubuntu, codenamed Lucid Lynx. The affected packages are:

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How to configure Tomcat 6 in Ubuntu for Eclipse

Posted on March 27th, 2010 at 19:11.

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If you are an Ubuntu user and a Java developer there’s a great chance that you’d want at some point to develop web applications using Eclipse and Tomcat. The easiest way to install Tomcat is by using the package manager: sudo apt-get install tomcat6 tomcat6-* Now configuring Eclipse to use the instance of Tomcat you [...]

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How to install Canon LBP printers in Ubuntu

Posted on March 20th, 2010 at 11:06.

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UPDATE 1: The currently used CAPT driver since version 2.0 is 2.00 which adds support for Canon LBP6300dn and Canon LBP9100Cdn. Also a new script has been added to the archive to handle the driver uninstall process. After I bought Riker , when it came to installing Ubuntu I had two options: either install the i386 [...]

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How to install VMware Server on 2.6.32 kernels

Posted on February 21st, 2010 at 0:41.

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Recently I have updated the script and the patch used for installing VMware Server on the 2.6.30 and 2.6.31 kernels to include support for the 2.6.32 release as well. Also I have modified the script so that now the VSOCK module compiles and loads perfectly into the running kernel. All the needed instructions can be [...]

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How to install OpenOffice.org 3.2 on Ubuntu

Posted on February 3rd, 2010 at 0:43.

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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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How to set Nautilus as the default FTP handler in Linux

Posted on January 22nd, 2010 at 18:03.

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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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How to install VMware Server on 2.6.31 kernels

Posted on January 19th, 2010 at 1:20.

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UPDATE: The script should also work with 2.6.32 kernels from version 1.2. 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 [...]

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