After enrolling to the University of Southampton Software Engineering MSc programme the iSolutions department (responsible with the IT infrastructure) provided me with an user account to be able to access all the facilities. The account also has an email address attached, which happens to be hosted by a Microsoft Exchange Server. And here the “conflict”
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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 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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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:

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: Now configuring Eclipse to use the instance of Tomcat you previously installed should be straightforward.
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UPDATE 4: Version 2.4 added support for printer models LBP6000 and LBP6018 and provides a better dependency handling. Please test it on older Ubuntu versions as it works perfectly on Ubuntu 11.04. UPDATE 3: Version 2.3 added support for Ubuntu 11.04. UPDATE 2: Due to popular demand version 2.2 now supports Ubuntu 10.10. Use the
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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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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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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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