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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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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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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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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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