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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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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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Linux tutorials for Windows users

Posted on June 21st, 2009 at 15:05.

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Recently I was struck by the idea of creating some Linux tutorials for the new user that comes from a proprietary world, like Windows. I won’t say Mac OS because I don’t think that anyone with a Mac will renounce to use Tiger or Leopard for Linux because as you should all know that Mac [...]

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Bash fun

Posted on June 15th, 2009 at 22:46.

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Linux is awesome. I knew that! When you are completely bored and you have access to a terminal (and you are in the sudo-ers group) you can do this: radu@enterprise:~$ sudo apt-get install cowsay Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done Suggested packages: filters The following NEW packages will be installed: [...]

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Linux strongly attacks Windows in Switzerland

Posted on May 26th, 2009 at 10:55.

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I have read on Slashdot and afterwards on Red Hat’s News blog that the Swiss government has done a non-transparent deal and without a public bidding with Microsoft for a contract in value of $15M / year for software, hardware and support. Therefore, Red Hat and some other companies requested that the Swiss Federal Administration [...]

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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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Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope pros and cons

Posted on April 29th, 2009 at 18:18.

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I am currently running Ubuntu 9.04 on two machines (as the single OS on my personal laptop and dual boot with Windows on my work desktop) and I will soon (by Sunday tops) have it installed on a third (my home desktop). This is probably my largest Ubuntu deployment, if I can call it like [...]

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