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Mark Shuttleworth interview

Posted on October 19th, 2009 at 14:01.

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Golem.de has published a two part interview with Mark Shuttleworth (Wikipedia entry, his blog), the founder of Canonical Ltd., the company that is behind Ubuntu. Some of the questions he tried to answer were: Where do you see the Linux desktop today? Does MacOS X offer a better user experience than Linux? Does KDE do [...]

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Why don’t you switch to Linux?

Posted on October 15th, 2009 at 23:41.

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If you had time to read my blog before you would notice that I mostly write about technical stuff. Since Google indexes my pages, most of the users that arrive here are more or less above average when it comes to computers. Using the Analytics tool provided by Google, I get the following data when [...]

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Ubuntu’s 9.10 improvements

Posted on October 11th, 2009 at 14:12.

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Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, is just about the corner, with its programmed launch on October 29th. This release is a special one, preparing the way for the next LTS which is due to appear the next April (Lucid Lynx, 10.04). Lots and lots of features and improvements have been added, the main goal being [...]

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Linux Starter Kit – Ubuntu 9.04

Posted on September 20th, 2009 at 20:29.

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From the middle of July I have started a nice collaboration with OXY PRESS, the company responsible for the Linux Identity magazine series. They have asked me to write some articles for the Linux Starter Kit magazine, regarding Ubuntu 9.04 which I gladly did. I was happy to be able to share my experience with [...]

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Windows 7 review from a Linux user

Posted on September 8th, 2009 at 18:23.

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Starting with August 21st I have installed Windows 7 on my home desktop, right after installing Ubuntu 9.04 with custom packages so that I could obtain the maximum hard disk performance gain for Linux. Being a student at an Automatic Control and Computers Faculty has its advantages, one of them being the MSDN AA membership [...]

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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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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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Lazy programmers do…

Posted on July 30th, 2009 at 16:21.

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Scripts to avoid clicking in three places once they start their computer: #!/bin/bash firefox mail.cotescu.com & thunderbird & pidgin & sleep 5s purple-remote "setstatus?status=available&message=http://radu.cotescu.com" exit 0 This starts those three programs in the background once I log in provided that I add this script in System – Preferences – Startup Applications in Ubuntu.

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