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Put your latest tweet as Pidgin’s status on Ubuntu (Linux)

Posted on December 22nd, 2009 at 1:27.

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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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How to install Oracle Database 10g XE and OC4J on Ubuntu

Posted on December 17th, 2009 at 22:58.

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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 [...]

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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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Linux Prodigy

Posted on December 9th, 2009 at 0:34.

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Starting today I will try to show on my blog an interesting IT ad every week. For the first video, I’ve chosen an extraordinary Linux ad made for IBM back in 2003 by Ogilvy & Mather. The only word that comes through my mind is impressive! Some of the “actors” and their words: John Wooden [...]

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What Linux has offered me until now

Posted on December 6th, 2009 at 19:55.

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I’ve started using Linux since the 6.10 release of Ubuntu. More precisely the Edgy Eft release. I remeber that at that time I’ve been actually using Kubuntu. The learning curve was a bit steep, as it was really something new for me. And every time I would experience troubles I left Linux to rot away [...]

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Linux Identity Starter – Ubuntu Family 9.10 Karmic Koala

Posted on November 25th, 2009 at 17:00.

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Recently I’ve finished my work for the latest issue of the Linux Identity Starter magazine which talks about the large Ubuntu family, reached at the 9.10 release. Marking the important evolution of the latest release from Canonical, this issue contains several interesting articles about setting up an Ubuntu environment, offering you the chance to know [...]

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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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Linus Torvalds and Windows 7

Posted on October 24th, 2009 at 0:09.

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These two pictures will go epic: Linus has a great sense of humor. Brilliant! Can you imagine Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer doing a similar thing? via Chris, Patrick

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Enabling arrow keys in VMware Server 2.0.1

Posted on October 23rd, 2009 at 12:57.

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While running Ubuntu 9.10 RC in a virtual machine from a VMware Server instance, I remembered about the arrow keys and others that didn’t work quite well in the VMware Server’s console. The fix is pretty simple: edit the /etc/vmware/config file or the /etc/vmware-server-console/config file and add the following entry at the end: xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = [...]

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Happy Birthday, Ubuntu!

Posted on October 20th, 2009 at 10:22.

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Today Ubuntu celebrates its 5th birthday. And it only took them 1 year, until 2005, to become the first shought-after Linux distributuion according to DistroWatch.com. The releases until now were: Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) – October 20 2004 Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) – April 8 2005 Ubuntu 5.10 (BreezyBadger) – October 12 2005 Ubuntu 6.06 [...]

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